."\ ifffigc’g'OpIyii-i—‘Indelpic'fi'dgcnt{Farmer’s Weekly Owned and Edited innichigan- _‘$ PER YEAR—No Premiumnf .9 K. ~ 1 Free List or Clubbing one: _ ' ,._ , ..__..._. f SATURDAY, OCTOBER'IZth, 1918 VJ ', . ’ . v F,.M,R. EARLIER-you should receive to- morrow morning a bulletin, bearing :the figstnreio‘f the good. old ‘U. S. government, g flich‘read something like'this, “Farmers are urgedto buy the BoliVer plow this year, in preference to the Pierre, It is cheaperand just as good. The Boliver manufacturers have this year: doubled their production in response to the "government’s request, and it is there- fore your patrioticj duty to help move this surplus, ” what would you do? The next time you had to buy a plow/you’d get a Boliver. * Last winter practically every produce deal- er,-,’—,-jobber, wholesaler, retailer,——east of the ,Mississippi received a bulletin from the'bean division of the food administration urging them to buy pinto beans and advertise their. merits, both as a patriotic duty, and because the‘pintos were cheaper and just as good as the navy beans. And being for the most part, good citizens, these dealers proceeded to carry out the Wishesof the bean division. - All this is ancient history. We repeat it here merely as introductory to our assertion and our proofs-v that w-hatwe said about the harmful effects of this propaganda upon the future of the navy bean ,mar- * ‘ not Wanted; the Navy Bean Asks. ‘ for Restoration By FORREST, LORD Itis perfectly clear that unless the Ameri- can public goes back to the old familiar navy bean, Michigan’s great “fifty million dollar bean industry” stands in a fair way of being absolutely ruined for all time to come. We have the fact established that the Food Ad- ministration carried on an extensive propa— ganda to encourage the buying of pinto beans. Every grower" knows well enough from hisown experience that the price of beans, navy beans, from that time on steadily de- clined. We have market reports from all over the country to show that the demand for navy beans has been and continues very light, and we know that another large crop is soon to go onto the market. In the light of all theSe facts we can draw no other e. *lusion than that stated in the first sentence of this paragraph. .What is the remedy? We do not know. We had no hand in the deal that turned the navy bean marketso’f the east over to the pinto ' the bean division of the Food Administration, growers. “Having only a. slight knowledge 0f the factors entering into this deed, we cannot suggest an intelligent method of undding it. The re-establishment of the navy bean in the good graces of the public lies with the same agency that unseated it. No one the can right the wrong. If government pub; J r incl the navy bean market, government publicity may restore it. We do not know. But we see no other way, except by government purchase that the navy bean crop of 1918 can be taken off the growers’ hands without entailing enor- mous losses. This week the Michigan Bean Growers’ As— sociation meets air-Saginaw. The writer will be present. 80 will Mr. K. P. Kimball, head of the man whose signature was appended to the bulletins that introduced the pinto bean ' into the east, and the man who can explain, if he so desires, why the pinto deal was ever put across. it is probable that Mr. Kimball will touch upon the matter. Perhaps, even, he may be able to suggest a means for undo— ing the mischief. W'e were amused to note in a Lansing dis— patch which appeared in a re ket has already come to pass. The condition of the navy bean market today is indisputj able evidente that the efforts of theffood administration to supplant the navy bean with the pinto have met with suc- cess. ‘ i For months market f‘spec- ialiSts,”; dealers all , along the , line; producers, farm papers; —'——everybOdy interested in the navy bean industry has been guessing at the causes of the spineless condition ”of the navy bean market, and seeking a . remedy, Without avail. It was difficult to believe, harder to admit, but nevertheless bewild,” . eringly~ conclusive that the navy bean was no longer Want- ed by; those who " were former- ly ‘ its best friends. Elevators , bought to their storage capac- 1' lty and waited for orders: They Camein ‘edriblets. The retail (1er was lacking. The public,” it" seemed, had quit eatingf navy/beans. ' ‘ , Wejface another marketng seaso ,' [several million bushels" more ‘ wbeanstb "dispbée' of than}, is a a Year are. use one . ' larger, but, the—ears; and this ‘year , we" have ’ Trepar A new bean that comes with e for the ‘ 7 fPIA/TO "c s end rscmc I buy ml)“ mud in our um. kiltbru, lino-l Il.u.-.L~.--~,~iu,- qu-‘sm m5 Il'n: Mb \wu \--;.- \‘orA-I'ilr M ND now comes the pinto been. one of the most ancient of our edible beans, yct coming as an innovation to several odd thou- sands of our northern and eastern house nivcs. Known,” it has been, since the days of the early border Indians of Towns. il has had no true recognition of ils mums nnlil the present food crisis called upm the n'cslcrn pmdurrrs for inrrcascd food sup- plirs, innnsn'cr to u'birh demand; they have offered lo us the speckled pinto. Colorado's bean crop for-the 10:7 scam . nnmlxrrcd Ioo.ooo,ooo,pounds, of which nlncly‘fivopcrrcnl arc pinto beans. Next lo the polnlo this is Colorado‘s most im- portant vegetable. There are altogether between sixty and‘ scvcnly varieties of Mexican beams, of whirh the pinlo'is-onr. The name “pinto" is apparently from lllC Spanish word " piubjo, " meaning " spou rd, stained, mottled." Because of its droughx - resisting qrulilits the pinto bean lends usclf to a greater Colorado acreage than any other bean-a total acreage for ":17 of r7 5,000 acres. A ‘ t c Mexican sun, the strong! h-aiving powers of the pinto,- long before such lhings as food values or cnlorim had ever been considered, were attributed by the lndizns to their Sun God under whose can we the grow- ing cmp flourished i’ The pinto bean ranks, well, with other henna in food value, as the following com~ para! iv: chemiml analyses Show "at-'01; w‘n Ma Pa cw' 4.5 c - "73' Pull: Perla Pgét rm“: 7 u. u u ii 3 l t l: . . :63; 4:- :z-: a: .u ii: :-: :2: The high protein mntcnt «of fins naturally makes their thin rm substitute. The United sum De~ ' men! I' Aidcultum'comwe: beans " 2:: meat 1in the following [.WiV' “Tm’ Tho'obove is olredimo'd Housekeeping, one crbert Hoover's message to you. Kitchen Soldier' thirds of a pint of dry beans is equal to one pound of beef of average composition." It should be kept in mind that one pint of cooked beans has one—third the nutritive value of the dry been because of its large increase in volume in cooking. Again, a. portion of the protein of beans is not or- dinarily utilized by the body Even with these losses, however, beans remain a valuable'murcc of vegetable protein "The true pinto is a bull-colored been slightly larger thanlhe navy, nearly the shape of the kidney, and mottled with dark bronm splashes or spots, the spotted appearance giving Way to a smooth. vclvcly brown upon cooking. [1 is so distinctly marked that. there is no reason why its name should be given to any inferior bean, as has been done in some sections to the divided detriment ol the genuine pinto. Prejudice against a colored bean, and more especially against a mottled bean like tbe'pinto, has prevented the liberal use of this been by the northern and eastern houscwijces. Amlomed ,to the while been or navy, or to no more unattractive bean than thcimd kidney, the pinto has not held a very high posilion in her esteem l.:u’k nl knnn'lulgt- ax to the proper preparalion of NW pinlo may :ll~() be l’u‘l'l :ch‘nunlnblc for ils seeming lmk of popu- larity, for poorly cooked il hm no plzn r on the lzlbll: of Ihc f.L]<" action of the government to hold the priro of our product down to tho consumer. Mr. \Vurnm's place in. E the hearts of the people of Michigan is well 3 understood, for his service to thom has indeed been great. You will be glad to meet him there. 2:50—w4‘llow can the lln—Statt- Milk Product-rs be brought to understand their benefit from. and obligation to. the organizer] movement?” Five minute talks by M. 1.. Moon _ Keddy, Fenian; Robert (‘. Blank, Maple Rapids. These broadminded milk producers will give their viewpoints from the field. :l:15~—“How can we put the dairy industry on a per~ manent and profitable basis?” Hon. D. D. Aitken Pres. National Holstein~Friesian Association. in great business circles Mr. Aitken is consid- ered one of the st constructive men of this ago. His plan we ld result in multiplying the _ consumption of dairy products; in putting the dairy industry on a profitable basis; in keeping our boys on the farm ; in making the country the most desirable place in which to live. Don't fail to hear Mr. Aitke-n. 3:45~Report of committee on Resolutions, nomina» Hons. election of officers; , Jackson; W. H I.“ \ Prices Fixed by Detroit Milk Commission} The Detroit Milk Commission. at its meetingpon ,a For the month of November, the price. i '~ the , .. no, the first irejght-gbnefifif- Send all communications to PLO; Reed"? llN'Ylll‘Ull‘l ”‘erv. “ , ikely to continue so. Heroic {France is today actually so short ’of food that she has been obliged to out down her consumption of ijheat 25 per cent her censumption of sugar 49 «per cent and her consumption of fats 48 per cent. «in spite of all we could do to help. , brfn’gsrhome the part the food we alone can supply has been playing and is to play ln.wlnning the War. Great Britain, also is dependent still for "and the United States 1 Food is our greatest contribution to the war, and our greatest domestic problem as well. From 'March 1, 1916. to March I, 1917, the reserve of the grains in the United States fwas reduced to an amount equal to one D o u n a per day for every man, woman ' 1 America. The difference be- tween the a a m o u n t of grain in our . country at :vthe beginning and at the end of that one year was ' greater than any CI‘Op ev- er raised in lthe United States with three except- ions. 'We are not.on~1y faced with the duty which has been laid upon us to supply food to our Allies and to the neutral nations of the world, a duty which we must perform or lose the war, but also with the duty to restore our own reserve of grain to a point where a single bad crop cannot mean famine in the land. The food situation is serious, if any thing ‘can be. . The amount of food available can be increased by producing more or by using less. Nine- tenths of our attention in the United States seems tohave been given to saving what we had instead of to the vastly more fundamental question of producing more If we had concentrated on the question (if larger production a reasonable fraction of the attention, ingenuity, and effort that has been given to the conservation, there would have been far more food for our Allies and our own people and much of the painful need for saving as well as the anxiety over supply would have disappeared. it would be hard to imagine a more grievous and unnecessary rflistake. * * * * Increase of crop-production is mainly a question of dealing with men. To secure a larger crop is a matter-of getting the farmers to produce more. and in order to do that we must deal with them as they are, and take measures such as 1.111111 their circumstances, meet with their approval, and therefore produce results. Officials Do Not Understand Farmer One of the main difficulties in our food situation has" been that the officials in control have not un- ‘ derstood the farmer. We have had the city man’s point of view in control of the food question, and not. the point of view of the man who produces the ‘ food. The farmer is the man who grows the crOp, and to get him to increase his crop you must reach his heart and his mind. But he can’t be reached along the lines that apnea! to the banker, or the merchant, or the bricklayer, or the hand in the factory, but only along lines that fit in with the ways of thinking and living of the man who act- ually walks in the furrow and milks the cow And ' that has not been done. One of the Biggest Blunders of the War , I am not going into the question of the mistakes . that have been made. We are at war, is valuable mainly as a warning. Th thing‘ to be fume now is to provide for the next crop, leaving : the story of what has already happened to be written afterward. When the story is told, the , MS concerning the relation of 0:11 government ' ' Gifford Plnchot That fact ' ’65 per cent of her essential foodstuffs on Canada six principal and child in .T the past ' A Victim farmers during our first yen in the war" FDITOR’S FOTE ..HE. WRITER of the accompanyif ticle 1's Mr.-Gi17’ord Pinchot, chief forester of the United ._Stgt.es. In his strikingly" clear and forceful lang- uage Mr. Pinchot discusses the essentials of~ \the food program for the coming year,p01'nt- .ing- out the mietakes that have been made by the government in its food program of the past year, and suggesting many import- ant reforms; Readers will note a very great similarity between the points raised by Mr. ‘ Pinchot and those raised by MiChigan Bus- iness Farming in its editorial comments 117)- on the same subject. _It is‘the criticism, of such men as Mr. Pinchot and of such farm papers as M. B. F. that calls a halt ‘to 1171‘ wise measures and secures a remedy for er: _isting emls'. production look small in comparison. If our far- mers, in' spite of the failure of the government in organization and understanding, in spite of the lack of labor, credit, and supplies. still increase or. maintain the crop production of last year, it will be an achievement far beyond all praise. and it will have saved the nation from losing the war. The farmer is a member ‘of a highly skilled pro- fession. There is no other man 'who works for as small wage who is as skilled ’a worker as the “‘ farmer, and there is no other man who requires as large a field of knowledge to be successful with the work he does. In talking recently to a body of farmers, I assumed that it takes about three years to make a skilled farm hand, Immediately 'a gray haired man in the audience spoke up and said “Ten." 7To make a farmer capable of direct- ing the work-of a farm of course takes very much longer. All this is not generally understood in town. I had oceasion. the, other day, to tell an- en- ergetic, robust and intelligent city 3man that he could not earn his keep on a farm. He “was in- clined to be hurt, and very much surprised. ‘-‘Why,” said he “I supposed anybody could work on a farm. " Said I, on his place " and it was true. The Farmer’s Risk A farmer is not only a member of a highly, specialized profession.~—we must rememberthat he is also a businessman iii a business which in- volves taking largen risks than almost, any other business. in addition to all the ordinary chances of business. he is subject to the weather to a tie? gree that is otherwise practically unknown“. More than 111111.119 has his own way of thinking and having 1eached a decission he is slower to change than the city man. Our city people are inclined to look down on _‘he farmer. They sometimes think of him as being different from them and. therefore inferior. But this is very far from true. When all is said and-done the man who owns the land from which he makes his livinglis the back- bone of the country. Furthermore, with his family he makes up one-third of the population. Even from the point of View of organization he is not to ' be despised. for our organized farmers are. more in number than the whole membership of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor - The demands which will be made upon us for food in 1919 and 1920 will be enormous, and (hey will be made absolutely irrespective of whether the war ends’ or not. When victory comes we shall have more and’not less, people to feed than before, for the demands of half— starved Germany and Austria will be added. The ending of the war will produce no more food and no more ships. . It. will not bring the vast wheat stores of In- dia or Argentina or Austrélia a mile heater to London or Berlin. will be colo jsal whether the war endsior not. What then must be done to reach the farmer." supply his indispensable needs, and make it poses , , ib‘le for him to produce in 1919 when he would: like: ‘ Vince his nae is rVe-ry much to the tummy. everything that is ' production. ’ his rotation, by the success he has: had with the ‘ cannot turn a tap. and hold his milk for a later ~y keep his cow and raise more "A farmer wouldn’t have you“ has been created between food production whiCh -hard to hold. from exposure to heat and cold; he has no‘”--heli- The demand on us in 1911;: - days and very few pleasures and he can g het-. that nothing- that waafione with the food after 1. was grovm could increase or decrease the grow- ing of food. That theory is wholly mistaken done to conServe 1601,10 regulate price, to restrict use, to promote saving, has its direct effect on Food is a commodity," and the‘ law 01“- supply and demand, when not repealed by men , opoly, applies to feed as it does to any other come , modity. Conse vation measures affect demand. Therefore they must influence supply, or product- . ion also. The farmer determines what he is go- ing to g1 ow next year, subject to the demands of things he grew last year. He is in business to ‘ make money. Therefore, he Will grow most of what pays best and he cannot do otherwise. Take the mater of milk, for example. WhateVer reduces the consumption of milk tends to result in less milk for those who need it instead of more. The farmer must milk his cow daily. --I-E,~because of any “Save the Milk” campaign the demand for his milk is cut off, in self- defense he must cut off the supply. He cannot produce milk ata loss. He 1. .. .Hill’IElliHmIN]UllNlllllllllIillllullllIll"!lllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllflllllifllll'l "‘Iillmlm. market. So he reduces supply to the level of de , mand by selling the cow to the butcher. But if the demand increases at a living price, he will The more consump-' tion of milk is stimulated, the greater will pro— duction be. and the more consumption is reduced, the less the supply of this best and cheapest of animal foods for all of us. A"‘Save the _Milk” campaign is a blunder into which only a city mind could fall. Chickens. p0 ',atoes veal ‘lamb and other pro- duce might likewise be cited to show how the con- servation of a farm product has an immediate and direct influence on the production of it and how- wise and skillful a hand is needed to deal suc~ cessfully with the amazingly sensitive and per- vasive relation between agricultural production and the conservation of. agricultural products. The first thing to be done in preparing for a crop in 1919 la1ge enough to meet our foreknown needs is then to wipe out the artificial wall which , ill‘l. 1H1: “11111111111 1.111.11. 11-1'1'11'11WE‘1511E. has been assigned to the Department of AgriCula ture. the food conservation, which the Food Ad« ministration supervises and controls. 11' actual consolidation is impracticable, then at least such co-operati‘on should be. enforced between-them as will effectually prevent the taking of“ any conser- vation measure until farm experts have consider- ed and approved it in relation to vproduction. ‘ J.“ ‘ll‘mil l."”llUHYE’WNHUIE'NIW.ifillllil’l'W'l ‘1 1 Give Farmers Assurance of Labor and Profits. The second thing is tosee that the farmer has 7 the means with which to produce.’ Of these. the most important is labor. Manpower in agricul- . ture has exactly the same value as man power in war. Since neithei~ high school boys nor fail- ures from the slums nor casuals from the streets, nor women on vacation can supplv the year-long need of the American farmer for skilled labor, since even before the war began farm labor was piobably 10 per cent short. since more‘ than a quarter of our NationalKArmy is composed of skilled farm workers. and since it is not easy to grow more crew; with less men, the labor situa- tion is critical." . -. - 0 Normally, there is about one farm laborer to every two farms in the United States. We cannot feed our people‘and our allies without the farm‘- er’s hired man, but farm help is hard to find and As a rule, the farm laborer has small pay, long heurs, complicated totals, and therefore the necessity for very high skill; in handling them. He does a great many different . things, and he must do them with skill or not at; all. Then he is often quite isolated; he suffers? ill 1 ' 1l-. -..r . lllllllllltltI!lll”will!llllillllmlllllllllllfllllillfllllllllll lllllllmlllmmllllllllllllll fill"! mm‘ ‘l'y'l'I-I‘HH'WI 'iu -,. ”11.1111 "xl" x'vxxpumxm ”it-‘1‘ can, “swap“.xuw. the Depar inept of Agriculture rushed for. _.pariso'ns with normal times are meaningless or ' xiiisleadixxg now. The true standard of Judgment "Lisiwhat we need now to win the war, not what we Q used to need in peace. ' ' We Cannot Lose Money and go on Farming ‘“ The farmers raised a good crop last year, at l"llHHINMNHHIIHHIllll“mHlHHHVIHIHIIHIIHIIH“HIM"|UlIIIINHINIHIHIHIHJHIIHilllllllil[HilllilllHIIHHllllHNlIIlllll the urging of the government. Many of them 1- lost by their patriotic effort because the market- ing facilities were not properly organized. Men Q' who even sent their wives and daughters into the ; fields found themselves at the end of the season ' "Every much out of pocket. much that they lost money, but that they cannot _ ' lose xxxoney and go on farming. The average farm- ‘- ‘ er in this country gets only about $400 in cash a " year;- The point is not so He cannot keep on farming if he loses many acres of’potatoes, as many and many a farmer did in Pennsylvania. and other states, enry Ford t Waterpower Saves Coal and Beats It HERE is enough water power running to» waste to turn every wheel in the world and provide all the light and heat the world world needs. We are going to operate our Mex- ican” tractor plant with water power, welshall- [build water power plants in several places in the («United States. lean be done'with water power right here at my .I have been demonstrating what own home. The River Rouge, which runs through my farm, close to my house, is not a very large.‘ istrsanx and has but an eight foot tall, but I am obtaining 200 horsepower the year around, which ' lights my house and operates "an sorts of electric- al~ conveniences and Which is coupled. up with Q the steam plant at the tractpr plant, so that we are ' really making tractors now partly by water power We must develops water power because it is not only more economical than steam power, but We ought to save the rest of the world’s coal supply for chemical use. There is nothing we ,now do with coal, aside fom its chemical products that We Can not do with water power electrically transmitted, most things we can dotbetter with water power. One of my first demonstration plants will be on L the upper Hudson between Albany and Troy, where I have acquired several hundred acres adjoining the government dam which developes a large amount of power, and intend to begin con- -struction of a, plant‘t‘o make tractor parts at once. I As, it is a navigable stream there are some War Department questions that must be settled before the actual power development can begin. Another 1 be locatedat Hamilton, Ohio, where the as for this are in course of preparaJ , ’should have it. - war. :~—1_feprese1xtative of organized farmers in any posi- ’ he Miami River Will be -.utilized for g , dem jl'abanddned farms of/ New England and Northern ‘7', New York ' refinite percentage of return to me Brideriake the work He reads of he ng in other war industries. ix it! that the gOvernment is going to put bil- ‘ ions of dollars into such industries at huge ag- grega‘te ‘proflts to their promoters. He does not 'Qwant huge profits himself,———well he knows he Will not get them—but he does want reasonable .business security, and it is fair and right that he At present it is denied to him, and to him almost alone. Farmers Must be Taken Into Partnership Finally—hand this, I think, is the most essential need in the Whole situation——the farmer must be taken into. partnership in the handling of the .39 far as IQ know there has not been a tion of high responsibility in any organization in ,Washlngton charged with the conduct of the war. ' .«r-A third of the people of the United States who Com .' have been producing food, the admitted first es- sential for the successful conduct of the war, .Qhaye been denied a voice in dealing with the great questions, even the farm questions, which con- cerns the war. It does not amount to representa- tion for a third of the people of this country to occasionally .call a few farmers to Washington for a few days, there to tell them what has been done and secure their approval. The treatment of. the Organized farmers may well be contrasted with the proper recognition that has been given to organized labor. A special branch of the Council of National Defence was established to representJt, and organized labor has from the beginning been properly recognized and continuously called into consultation. All I ask is that the'enOJmous body of organized farm- ers representing the largest single element among our people, supplying a more essential in- gredient for the success of the war than any other Third and Final Installment of Henry Ford’ 5 Story as told by himself in the World’s Work HENRY FORD This is the man whom many have called the indus— trial genius of the - world. Yet they ‘ 1 say that he is not qualified to rep- r‘esent' the people \\ of Michigan in - the United States senate. A man is known by his deeds. H e n r y Ford has more big deeds to his credit than any ‘ other man we can think of. Some of his latest ac— complishrments which he has modestly refrain- ed from mention- ing in the World‘s Work articles, will be told in word and picture in subsequent is- sues of this map:- azine. x ly work in the factory the year around; some may Want to live on the farm‘s all winter and motor back and forth to work, others will live in one of the cities in the winter. Some whole families, doubtless, will want to work in the plant; in some caSes only one member of a family may desire to. It is my intention to try to make this plant a stration center for the rebuilding of the. I- motored through that country re- ‘Oswego east,- and I was amazed at the fa in land lying idle He has ‘ as much a Government matter. exal Farm Loan Board the Government is lending making improvements; [function part of the Government’s concern out. vices; again and again he has asked for a working partnership in the war; urgently and repeatedly-3,, I he has called attention to his- lack 0f neceSsitiés’ without which it Would be impoSSible for him to carry out as fully as he would like to do the duty... ' -which the war has imposed upon him. Grudginga ‘ and merely ostensible recognition, and omciaily' inspired reproof have been substantially the 0121;; Now is the time, well in advanceof‘athe , crop of 1919, to call the producers of this. country: . results. into consultatio’m- to see to it that the farmer’s point of view is fairly represented in. dealing with farm questions, that matters which are with- in the knowledge and the competence of this; highly trained ‘class of men should no longer be dealt with as they have been dealt with hitherto —>almost purely from the point of view of men who were ignorant of the farmer’s mind, and ap- parently altogether out of touch with the condi: tions under which the farmer does his work.. ' This is my fist word. Remember- that farmers are just as differentwfrbm city men as city men are different from seamen. and that in. dealing with farmers, as in dealing with any other highly trained and specialized body of men success de— pends on the use of methods which they under- stand. This fact the city mind seems wholly un- able to grasp, and it is the city mind which is in charge of this war. The'one thing mostneedful in order, to secure for the world in 1919 a crop equal to the need we know is coming, is to‘ make the farmers of the United States cease to feel that they are outsiders in the war, exhorted and preached at by men who do not understand them, and to take them into a really effective and equal working partnership, and to see that they are rec- ognized as partners on that basis in the Winning of this war for human liberty. ——R;1/ Gifford Pinchof. LLD.. Milford. Pa. Industrial Genius, Fighting Pacifist, Enemy of Arisiocracy at Home and Abroad, and Friend to Pure Democracy that they are opportunities. and taught how to utilize them to the best advantage. For this edu- cation I shall use"motion pictures. Whole World Can be Taught by “Movies” HE Ford Motor Company is now one of the largest if not the largest distributors of motion picture films. We send outuevery week, I believe, more prints of our weekly educa- tional films than are made by any‘otlxer motion picture concern. Originally the motion picture was used merely to advertise the Ford car. It developed into something much bigger than an advertising method, a long time ago. Through the motion picture it is possible. I believe, to teach the lesson of modern. efficient agriculture, to every body in the world. We can teach Mexico and Rus- sia with moving pictures. ' After the war the government will have to do a. great deal along industrial lines. I do not be- lieve that the people are going to be willing to lot the railroads go back into the hands of the '7 crowd that was running them fOr their own ben- efit, after the war. I think future railroad de- velopment will be a matter for to control. The development of inland water- ways is certainly a Government concern, and the Government should lake an important part in the development of water power. Already a great deal of water power is being developed on Govern- ment irrigation projects through the Reclamation Service; water power for industrial purposes is not just Through the Fed- money to farmers for the puxchase of land and I believe this function of the Government could be wisely extended. The! Department of Agriculture is doing a great deal V to‘educate the farmer; I am trying to show 11 V i a great deal more can be done The policy; Federal aid for good roads is already establ ) of Government: it should, {The farmer feels deeply- that he has been left”? Again and again, through the Federal board , of Farm organizations, he ‘has on’ered his sex: ‘ our Government ‘ = I do not see why the development ofU? ml mm' mHnHI‘. ml 1111‘". “‘1‘ basking Crop for Michigan?—-Subscm‘ber, Fowler-' ‘ _ Mlle; Michigan" Milli"llIIlllilllMlflllllllllllilllfllmmllfllllllllllllill . lllllllfliifliluiillllll :mumnummmnummmm ~ coma for the same reason. ,vation and experiments have been made there - department tor 111mm» ”every; «I begin} attentibn givento Marmot! tion milked-oi to collie :‘W are here to serve you. Call upon iii.) , 17a: LINT CORN As A ‘HUSKING EROP FOR MICHIGAN FARMERs What do you ‘think of white flint corn for a ' : Chemical analyéis shows but little if any dif- ference in the food Walue between white corn and ,. yellow corn whether it be of the dent or the flint variety. ‘Practical feeding tests also substantiate this analysis by the food chemist. Some people prefe1 yellow corn to white corn simply because they like the col-or better, and again, another will prefer white corn to yellow So far as careful ,obser- Seems to be no'difference in the hardiness of white corn and yellow corn. 'The difference is all in the ~"color. Of course, some yellow flint corn is earlier than other varieties of yellow flint and the same can be said of the white flint. There is less risk in growing flint corn in Mich- igan than there is in growing dent because flint corn, cit-her white or yellow, is earlier and in al— most any year will properly mature, whereas dent (rung-especially many varieties, will not mature unless there is a very favorable season. I don't think anyone would make a mistake in getting white flint or yellow flint corn. It yields well and is hardy. Flint corn when kept for any length of time gets pretty hard and for feeding hogs it ought‘to be ground or soaked because it is so hard that it makes their teeth sore, ,especially young growing pigs. The stalks or foliage of flint corn will make splendid fodder. They are not as brittle as dent corn and all kinds Of live- stock relish them better, I think, ihan they do the fodder from the dent variety. It is the consensus of opinion among farmers that ordinarily you can get more corn to the acre with the dent variety than you can with the flint. The argument is that an ear of dent corn con- tains more food than an ear of flint corn; the kernels are much longer and you can grow just as many stalks of dent corn and just as well eared 7 “as you can of flint, therefore the actual yield in food nutriments Of dent corn will be greater than flint corn. But it is always safe to grow the 'flint variety because it always matures in Michi- gan—(707011 (7. Lillie. CORRECT PORTION OF OIL MEAL AS A FEED FOR CALVES Williyou please tell me thru your paper, how oil meal is prepared for calves and the amount fed, in each quart of milk per calf?~—Subscriber, Fowleroillc. If you wish to use oil meal entirely, it may be .prepared by scalding the same in hot water, us- ing a surplus of water. so that the entire mass, when completed and cooled, will form a thick jelly. Of this jelly, you will have to use your judgment as to the amount to be used for each individual calf fed. depending first, upon the amount of milk which is supplied to the calf, and secOnd, upon the age and appetite of the calf to be fed. If you have from six to ten pounds Of milk per day for each calf, you could get quite as good re- sults by using the following mixture of grain and ,ifeeding the same dry after the milk has been con- sumed Three pounds corn meal, 3 lbs. giound oats, 3 lbs. wheat bran. 2 lbs. linseed meal. The amount Of each fed to depend upon daily needs of . the cam—A. ('.A1id(1s011. Professor Husbyandrz/ M A. C. of Dairy ELEVATORS MUST PAY THE 1‘ GUARANTEED PRICE FOR WHEAT Am writing to you in regard to prices elevators are paying for wheat in St. fl‘oseph‘ county. The Mention elevator is only paying $2.05 for wheat and has sold middlings at $50 per ton for six months. The Leonidas elevator is also paying $2. 05 fox wheat. John Creed is proprietor of the Mention elevator and White Bros. are proprietors of the Leonidas elevator. Can you please inform me“. where to enter complaint against pro-Germans? Trusting you will wake up these elevator men. I " see by last M. B. F. that wheat should bring 10% at Mendon .——H. H. Mention. Mich. 'KEpI'rOn’s News: -—We are ad‘v/ sing the Grain. Generation and Food Administrator Prescott of the practices of the elevators in your section of oseph county. You may expect an increase Are there any rules, regulations, no . tiOns to prevent cr- hinder a tarniér fro ordering feed in car lots for himself and his hne’ighbo'rsiu- G. S., Kalamazoo- There are no ru-,les regulations, or restrictions that would prevent a farmer from ordering feed in, -Any carloads for himself and his neighbbors. mill ShOu'Id sell a carload to a farmer just the same as to a dealer when they have the feed for», if we should get information of any sale, and mill that refused to sell to a farmer When they _ had car-lead lots for sale, we will take" the proper action. ——Gco. A Prescott, Federal Fo'od Admin- istrator. » EPSOM SALTS As ALAXATIvE ' j ; COMPARED TO OASTORIOIL What amount of Epsom salts is equivalent Ito one ounce of castor cit-Subscriber, Fowleroille. If the ,information you seek is in connection with raising and caring for calves, I would sug- gest that from two to four ounces of Epsom salts givenfreely in warm water would serve as an equivalent to one ounce Of castor oil. Epsom salts has a greater degree of irritability than castor Oil and is considered less suitable as a laxa tive for young animals. —R. P. Lyman Dean, Vet- erinary of Medicine M. A. 0. WHO HAS A FARM TO RENT TO THIS FARMER? We have been a subscriber to your valuable paper for 5 years and we think it is the best farm paper we ever read. DO you know of a good farm with tools and stock furnished that is for rent on shares——one that has comfortable build- ings? We have been here 5 years, but as it is a very light land we can barely raise enough to keep the family. We have two boys in the ser- vice now and 5 more at home, the oldest is 16. We want to get a farm where there is plenty of. hay and where one can get something‘besides a. living for our work—Subscriber, Shelby. Mich. In the fall of 1915 I built a Natco tile silo, 14x 42, and it has proven satisfactory in every way, as the loss from frozen silage is absolutely nothing, and in saving of feed I find that I can feed the same amount of stock on a third of the amount as I did before I led silage, besides it is much bet~ ter feed and gives the stock an appetite to clean up roughage. My silo has really paid for itself in the three years which I have used it by the increase in the milk and butterfat, in the quick fattening of cattle. and in the great saving of feed. Besides this the tile silo is a distinguished work of beauty and adds a great deal to the appearance and value of the farmr—Earl C'. Walters, LeRoy, Michigan. I can say that M. B. F. is the best farm paper we eve1 took and we receive five or six different papers. If the farmers had had a paper like it five years ago they would be better oil? today. Please keep it coming.——E. M. F.. Ogemaw Go. BACTERIA IS ESSENTIAL IN THE GROWING OF LEGUMES For the most successful growth of Alfalfa, Clov- er, beans, peas, and other leguminous cropsthe , proper, kinds‘ of bacteria should be abundant in the soil. When new legumes are grown for the first time in a locality the soil should be inocul- ated with the' proper bacteria by artificial inocul- ation. In some regions soils are already supplied with the proper soil organisms; for example, in , many southern localities artificial inoculation for cowpeas is unnecessary ad in sections of the Mid- dle West bactei‘ia which thrive on the roots of clover and alfalfa are already present. Artificial inoculation can be accomplished by spreading soil from a well-established field, where . the particular legume which is to be grown has been successful, upon the new land to be planted with that legume, and also by the use of pure cul- tures of the proper bacteria. The U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture is prepared to supply enough of the pure culture to inoculate one bushel of wed, and this culture can be obtained in betfles Which contain complete directions for use. Application . blanks for these cultures may. he obtained from restric- ‘ From this size silo I feed 9 cows. On' many good iti'zens o Micki anon ' guises Foxyg " Wallingford , a r -q _ . , ; fésting the highways and byimys selling"? 817011116 " ‘ floor stuck in all kinds of propositions from n: log motor trucks to far. Canadian gold fields, tak ing advantage of the extra money which' 1s unques» tionably floating around during these war times altho some of us seldom see any Of it The strange thing about the stock-selling scheme is that it usually comes in sheep’s clot ing, not seldom under therguardianship of a tru ting fel- low citizen who innocently introduces it toms friends because he has been completely hood, winked by the crafty stranger. "wen if it’s good enough for you, John, I’ll take as much stock as you d .” And so it gbjes, until the list itself of influential and otherwise conservative and m- eessfnk citizens is enough to sell the stock to any one, without even going into the wOnderfui de- tails. Like a snowballit rolls up and as seen as the first “influential local citizen" takes“ ask-inter- eet the wise stock Salesman can pass on to greener pastures, cefiainghat the lambs in the town he leaves will follow their “bell-ewe. ” - Stock- selling schemes in normal times are at least within moral and legal rights and manya good company has had to go outsideof its cor- porate limits to sell its stock, but always it is for the “buyer-beware. " But in actual war (times when even so wealthy a country as the United States is begging for every dollar her people can loan her and promising high interest, sure re- turn and absolute security as she is in the Liberty bonds, these men who are trying to pass of worth- less‘ or questionable stocks ought to be classed as traitors. and put to pounding stone at Leavenworth. There are indications that several stock sales- menare loose in the "rural districts of Michigan. If you know the lair Of one; if one has called on you or your neighbor recently, let’s hunt him out. Write me about him and if ,you say so, I’ll keep your name absolutely confidential .but let’s show the fakir what the bright light of a little publicity will do to this pe1ishable product ll * f AFTER THE WARf—I stood in front of a war l-ulletin board on Fort street yesterday as the words "Bulgaria begs for peace,” Were hastily chalked across its face. Besides me’ stood a po- liceman. “WP“, they’ve squealed,” he said. "I never saw one crook spill the bean» yet that we didn’t get the whole gang without any trouble, our boys might as well, ring for the wagon, they’ll get the Kaiser next.” On the other side stood a dirty little newsboy; he was waiting for his bundle Of papers which would come a minute llater when the good news was flashed across the first page of an extra, that had already begun to roll from the big grinding rotaries in the base- ment. “Gee Whitickers," he said, ”what’ da ya tink 0’ dat, dey’ve got d'em Bulgars down on der knees a‘beggin’ for pet—leewan’» my big brudder Sylvester just got over a couple of weeks ago!" he added with a. knowing smile 011 the corner from a fruit wagon I bought a big .juicy Jonathan from a little weasoned-faced woman with a ”shawl tied around her head, and a gaudy bar-pin with a service flag and one star holding it together in front. “What it say?" she asked, pointing to the sign. I tried to tell her and she understood me only when I had made Bulgaria plain to her and made all the signs Of‘; begging that I knew how. When she understood a great light lit up her face, “the end will soon be,” she said ‘and her eyes welled up with those priceless mother’s tears as only a. mother’s can. The new-st-y had gotten his papers and was tearing by, “extry, extry, all about de end Of~“de war!” and then I thought of what it will mean to the people Of the World when the real day‘comes, that Germany acknowl~ edges in no uncertain terms that she is a beaten nation ready to overthrow her monarchy, disclaim her kaiser and his mad rule, and enter a league of nations, which will act as a caurt forever to pre- vent another -.war t t I HAVING AN Y TROUBLE !— Apparently not, for you have not written the desk about your pro- , blem of getting G. Graftert Co; to tell you where ‘ M shut them the Department at Washington, D. 0. (Pure cult- 4': ure can alsd be“ obtained. either free or at small . = cost, from the Michigan College oi Agriculture; Last Lansing, Mich , illlllillmlllfllllllIllllflmlllflfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 'll!llllllllllllllliilllllllliilmlllllllllllllli"mlllllllllllflllllllllillllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllilllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllillllllllIlllllfilllllllllilllllllllillilhlllllllllllllllll‘rllllllllllliliilliiliillllllllillllllihilllillililllllilili|lllllllllillillllllllllillllilllHllllxllllllllllllll!lllllEHHlllllllllilllilllwlllillllllllllllllllIllllllll”ll"llllmllllllllllmmlillllllllllllIllllllIIIllllllllifllllllIlillillllllllllll‘1 / .llllllllllllflll ; , Y‘ 56 er day and that there was no. excuse in greased charge. and‘iomdnlied a threshing association, the rIe-I suits of 611's of which are shown reWith, proving that farmers can just as well thresh grain as to grow it. Threshing associations are numerous in the grain sections of the west svhere the average ' ‘swzill harvest tr6m 4,900 to) 5,000 or more , ' , 3,91 wheat a year. In Michigan 8. number of associations have recently come into existence. and hive operated with satisfaction and profit to, 1 , " its members “ . 1“ 1 The, request from a reader for a pattern of the by-laws iI'or .organillng a cooperative. threshing association “treed” us temporarily. We wrote to the Agricultural College, and Mr. Baldwin, head of the extension department, advised that the far- : _~ , . : mere could organize under the state 00- ~operative , ‘ 1' ? law, but that he did not know where sample by- laws could be obtained. _,Later Farm, Stock and Heme of Des Moines published the following by- laws in its columns and we are glad to present them to our readers herewith hoping that they will avail themselves of them to organize co-oper- atively in the threshing of their grain. l " A number of us farmers in this neighborhood have bought out a threshing outfit. Would like a set of rules and by—laWS which have been found to cover the ground in other localities. —~—W K, Bad Awe, Michigan. llllll day of ‘, 191—, by and between—wee- all of the state of Article 2— Whereas, it is the purpose 6:. the! said parties to form a. partnership for the? ' ” of‘11uying a threshing outfit, chiefly {I if? dofig I ‘9 their own threshing, for which .purpose mayhem -, agreed on the following terms and articles 0P agreement, to the faithful performance of which 7 to the other, his heirs, executors or assigns. Article ‘3— The style or name of this partner- " 2 ship shall be the ; its plaCe of business -———. Article 4—The Threshing Company shall be continued for a period of years, or such time as may be determined by a three-fourths vote of its members. Article 5—~—Any members Of this Go. who shall hereafter move away from the, territory herein- after mapped out may sell to the person taking .. . : his place, if agreeable to three-fourths of the com- ' -, " pany; .1r'not he shall sell his share to the —-—- ' - 1 Threshing Company. If for any reason they can- not agree upon the price, the matter shall be set- ; tied by arbitration 3 Article 6—I.I—The regular annual meeting of this company shall be held at —, on the -——— of. each year . Article 7—Speclal meetings of this company may be realled ‘by the president at any time, or upon a written request to the secretary by one» ,half of the members of the company. Article 8'—'—For the adoption of any motion or propositiml', an affirmative vote of more than one- half of the /members of the company is required. Article 99A quorum for the transaction of bus- iness shall consist of more tha_. one-half of the members of this company. Article 10—-,—The secretary. shall notify all mem- ‘ bers of this company five days before any meeting and shall keep a true recdrd of all meetings. - . article lie—No money shall be paid out except on ordIervdrawn on treasurer and signed by the presid and secretary. , Ar. 1.1—-_Tb_e officers of this company shall concistaof. president secretary, treasurer and three . as are to be chosen from its members at the 1:. I'"‘11HHHIHHHHJI‘W HHHHH 'inery shall beunder their control; “‘ plug it; use and exDenditures,‘ ’ he: fbushels threshed for each man panys correspondence, and preserve all necessary ’udoeum‘ents and papers, which, together with the "bricks and accounts shall be open to the inspect- ion of any member of the company at all reason- . able times. He shall. at the expiration of his term of office, deliver to his successor all books, papers, records, and documents of the company in his possession, and shall perform such other dut- ies as comm‘only belong to his office. Article Iii—Duties of the Directors—~The mach< they shall buy all machinery and necessary repairs and supp- lies, hire all necessarylabor for running the mach- inery, and designate who shall be the foreman in taking immediate charge of the ma‘chine and run- have charge of the threshing outfit of the company, and all other things prctaining to the business or the machinery, including shed for same. Provided, that in case of disagreement . between the directors, the matter shall be left to vote of the company. Article Ill—All contracts and obligations, when signed by the company’s president and secretary, By-Laws of a Co-Operative Threshing Outfit _, _- ' Article l—Made, concluded and signed. thing—a ‘ ‘6 ed $1,035.23, and saved the farmers $321 25. they mutually bind and engage themselves each . I Saved Threshing Costs for Farmers I want to drop you these few lines to assure you that I do not want to miss a ,single copy of M. B. F., for you are fighting a great battle for the farmers. Please find enclosed my check for $1 for renewal. I have a statement of our threshing experi- ence this [year which may help some others if you care to publish it. Being dissatisfied with the prices of 5, 6, 7 cents per bushel the threshers set for I918, our community organized a company of eighty members and bought a complete outfit and threshed ‘ for 4, 5 and 6 cents per bu. We threshed ‘32,150 bushels of grain which to $1,359.98 ,at a cost of $324.75, leaving clear- I came Wishing you success! with your good Iwork. i ——JI. W. Kelley, Lake City. Michigan shall be legal and binding on the members there- of. ' Article 17—~Any person shall upon signing these articles of agreement become a member of the— Threshing Company Article 18—All threshing shall be done at the customary price. Article 19—,—Each member shall pay the treasur- I er of this company, on or before October 1st of each year, the amount due as shown by the sec- retary’s statement. All threshing outside of the company shall be contracted to be paid for on or before same date. , Article 20——-Each member of the company shall pay the company an equal share of the running expenses of the machine Article 21—~The company, may by vote, set apart any surplus as a reserve fund, which shall be a- vailable in buying repairs or paying the ordinary expenses of the company. . Article .22—Any surplus not set as“: as a re serve fund thatswill have remained on. hand after ' 1the running expenses and cost of repairs, if any, have been paid, shall be annually divided equally among the members of the company Article 23I——The threshing route of the ——— Threshing Company shall be indicated by the . follthng map, and~any person living in the house that is now or may be hereafter situated within one-half mile of the threshinl route, shall be con- sidered as living on said route, and his turn shall ‘ ceme at that place on the route. Article 24—The machine will start at —~—— and thresh members’ grain in the order in which it comes to their places of residence on both sides - of the road on the threshing route. Article I25—The Imachine shall start each suc- I éeeding year at the ——job ahead of the previous starting point; counting by the previous year's job‘s ‘ Article 26—Jl‘hese articles of agreement, being somewhat in the nature of a, contract, can not be . alteregmrjehanged after adoption except by the, ,afl‘irmat e “Vote of three-fourths of the members ; e ompany after the season’s expenses have a 161i paid and the net earning shall have been applied He shall if required by any member. .' maRe a report at each annual meeting, of the re- , .~' eel-pus and expenditures and the financial condit- ion of-Ithe Company He shall conduct the com- , lately an’ so- jest want to express ourself in regard“; Icountry an’ was askin' men to vote for him for gin Detroit to tend to his business interests, an’ I jest to git one man nominated for office, an' especy- IGMN; Your Uncle Rube usually most‘ alwaysIfights'._ kinda shy of anything smellin' or tastin’ like pol-:1; itics, but, we’ve been readin’ quite a lot about it}; to matters an’ things pertainin’ to the comma election. I understand Henry Ford of Detroit is runnin’ I; on the democratic ticket for U. S. senator—an’ when I say runnin' I‘guess that jest about ex- presses ‘it, for he sure ain’t standin’ still, not by a cum sight. Henry Ford is a right good man, accordin’ to my Way of ‘thinkin’, a man who has done more for the laborin’ class of people than any man I know of, an' be haint made no great bigIholler about it either, jest went right on an’. sawed wood an’ said nothin’. He is a successful business man, a good citizen an’ darned if IIcan see why he shouldn’t make a good senator. A teller named Osborn—Chase Osborn, I think his name is—says: “A vote for Ford is a vote_ for the Kaiser," an’ tries to sling a scare into folks that way; but good land, Chase is jest up to his old tricks shootin’ hot air, and a spell ago was tryin’ to make us all believe that he was about the only man livin’ that could save the _. ~.- . . ,_ . - . "~1'- . , 3 g. . ' . ”1w , , .. W, . : . < ' ',. . I' :r c ‘,' , ' . . .I l ~»._ . ._ . ‘. . . ‘ _ . is « (fig. .. w - : ~ vwfi, . . Jr, ,, ‘ . v ‘ ~ mnmmrmmmmmmmI I senator, an' cause he didn’t git the nomination why, of course, he jest natcherly feels a little sore an’ is liable to say most anything. I But people know Chase, an’ because they do know him he is one of the most harmless things tha’ is. His talk can’t hurt anybody nor do ’em much good, an’ when a man like that throws slurs at a man like Hank Ford, why, people only laugh and feel a little mite sorry for poor Chase. Now. Mr. Ford ain’t spendin’ much money in this campaign an’ tha’ ain’t no one spendin’ mon- ey for him either—he is jest goin’ in dn his rep- utation an’ takin’ a chance, lettin’ folks think the matter out for themselves, an’ darned if I don’t believe that’s a purty good way to do too, jest let the people use their own judgment. If a man has ever done anything worth while for his state, nation or people, b’gosh it don’t seem to me as tho it would be ecessary to spend a hundred an’ seventy-six thousand dollars to tell folks about it; they ought to know it, it seems to me. An’ a hundred an’ seventy-six thousand dollars would buy a tidy lot of Liberty bonds, now wouldn’t it? Then we hear some of the fellers that want to keep Ford out of the senate say that he is needed they can give a lot of bum reasons why Hank shouldn’t be elected, all of which said reasons amount to about as much as Chase Osborn' s twad- (lle of pro-German an’ things like that. .. Of course, it’s true that Henry Ford has large interests in Detroit, an’ be has men to look after ‘em too his son bein’ one of them, which is per- fectly right an’ proper; he can brobably do more there than he could in the army, but takin’ the argument as it stands, that Mr. Ford is more need ed in Detroit than in Washington; then what about the other candidate, Mr. Newberry? Now, Truman is in the army or navy, or something, an’ some of that hundred an’ seventy-six thousand . bucks was spent toIlet folks know he was there— an officer, I believe. Well, that’s a mighty good place to be; no one denies it, but if he is as good a. soldier as we were told in the beautiful little article (paid for) that we read in the papers all summer, then by crismus, his place is in France an’ he’s needed there as much as Ford is needed in Detroit, an’ about the nicest way to settle -the whole dum business would be to elect Chase Os- born, who don’t seem to be needed anywhere, and let Mr. Ford an’ Mr. Newberry stick to the jobs they’re at. Kinda seems as if th’ must be a nigger in the , fence somewhere, when so much money is 'used , lllllllllilmfllumflliilfllllllll[LinlllllllillllllllllllllillllllllIll|l|llllllllIllIllill"Illill]lNililiililllllfllllillllllillflllllllilill|llllll|llllfl|llllIlllIllllillIll]l|lIlllllllllIIllllillllillllllIlllllulllllulllilllllllliliillllllllllil|lllll mmmnuunmmuhiulnnunmmm' lfllllllllllllillflllfllllliflllw v ially at a time like this, when we are all being urged to buy bonds, an’ help the Red Cross an I everything an’ voters are goin’ to ask save questions about that $176, 000, an’ will want know what interests furnished the money llnmmmmlr ', ural adviser to district board (Western), - mmuumuuunmmnmmm Brody. Port Huron. Mich wAgrlcultural * adviser to district board (Eastern). Division No. 2 with headquarteis at 2130 Penobscot Building.» ’ Detroit, Mich. *‘7 ‘ A. B. Cook, Owosso, Mich—Agricultural adv flier to district board (Eastern). Division No.3, with headquarters in the Federal Building, Laps. leg, Mich. T. F. Marston, Bay City. Mich—Agricultural advisor to district board (Eastern). Division No. 4, with headquarters in Eastern. City HallpBay City, Mich. James J. Jckway, Benton Harbor. Mich—Agri- cultural advisor to district board (Western) Di- vision No.1. with headquhrters at 406 Peck Build- ing, Kalamazoo, Mich. \ R. D. Graham, Grand Rapids, Mich.;——Agricult- Divis- ion No. 2, with headquarters in the City Hall, Grand Rapids, Mich. F. H. Vandeboom, Marquette, Mich—Agricult- ura'l adviser lto district board (Western), Divis- ion No 3, with headquarters at the Michigan Col- lege of Mines, Houghton, Mich The agricultural advisors are not to be mem- . bers of the district boards, but are to furnish to the boards facts relative to farm-labor require- ments, not only of their own districts but of the entire country. Such information will be suppli. ed to the advisers by the Department of Agricult- ure. The advisors also may concern themselves with individual cases before the district board. County agents of the Department of Agriculture have been supplied with questionnaires to be sent out for the purpose of securing facts about the farm-labor needs in the counties. 7.. _ . “it if. m. ,_ . , Americhh 13mm will 154.1 am iodides ; confident Insertion in the face of the fact asked to make a colossal contribution to Liberty six’ billion dollars ’ American , farmers have demonstrated their patriotic support of the nation'I' great War loans. One of the most striking fea- tures of the 3rd Liberty loan wasthe sup- port giyen you by the farming and rural populations“ ase liberally of the bonds. but the rural com- munities as, a rule were more prompt .ih completing their quotas than the larger cit- 1611. More than twenty thousand conimuntv, ities in the United States subscribed: or‘ oversubscribed their quotas, man/y of them on the first day of the campaign The majority of these were not cities. but country districts. I we, a typical agricul-" tural state, was the first to subscribe its quota. . But we now have a greater effort to make. Our largest. war loan has been launched. It will tax our determination to defend our liberty and our republic at. all costs. Our armies in the field are fighting Victoriously. The forces at home are now in an offensive that must not fail. Let us buy liberally that we may attain our objectives, a righ- teous and lasting world peace [EDITOR’S Norm: —As we read the above appeal we could not help comparing the fine tribute Sec’ y Houston pays to the farm ers, with the slurs of one Lamb in his "Play Fair, Mr. Farmer,” which were spread about the country like so much German poison gas, during the third loan campaign] that the American people are now being l. Not only did miners purely ' yield will not exceed 200 in; per acre. ;-f'l_‘o, ‘ matters still worse the” price paid is moch bole. cost of production, and labor impossible to get, any price. :7..- ” ' The been crop will be light as in many places the June frost killed them' land where planted again the September frost killed them 3M and? ' many outside the frost belt failed to ripen fully, and the excessive rainy weather gives them little chance to dry when pulled and stacked. Net many potatoes are being sold at the present price which is only $1. 25 per bu. Many farmers will feed them to stack unless the price is higher. There is much righteous indignation about the grading law, in fact {1211: much grading is being done—j?»- R. L. Herrick. West Paris, Maine. NO FARMER NEED SELL BELOW \ ' 3, THE GUARANTEED PRICE Reports reach the Food Administration that some farmers are selling their wheat at less than the guaranteed price because of the railway em- bargoes placed in parts of the country against wheat shipment. While the elevators are tem- porarily overstocked‘because seaboard movement has not kept pace with internal movement. this condition should be improved 'during the next thirty or sixty days. No farmer who will have patience until the situation improves need sell below the guaranteed price, for the Government (will buy all wheat as fast as it can be moved. Table of Basic Prices of Wheat Mill Feeds at Principal Cities and. Villages in Michigan NOTE: $1.20 per barrel. of these prices should be his selling price. To determine, exact price which miners are entitled to charge you for wheat and mill feeds, add the following charges: 0n mill feeds add $2 per ton in car lots, $4 in less than car lots. It he is shipping in mill feeds from the west, If your miller is manufacturing these feeds himself the t’btal’ he may be entitled towd anywhere from 4 to ..o more. On flour add Stat1on Mixed Feed Middlings, Shorts - Red Dog Ton Mixed Feed 1 1 0. Doc Midlands, . Shorts Mixed Feed Ton , ' Red Tea '1: . ~ as 517% ms Addison . .. Adrian Albion ‘ Algonac Tw. Allogan Allendale Alma . . Almena . Almont . Oorunna. . Croswell Dansville Debreit Detroit Dexter Ann Arbor . Argentine Armada . Athens Augusta. Avoca Bad Axe . . Bailey. R.I.. Bangor Baroda . . . . Battle Cr’k. Bay City Bear Lake . Bedford . . . Belding Belle River Belleville Bellevue . Big Rapids . Birmingham Blanchard. Blissfield .. Bloom’ gdale 10. 31 Boyne Fallle. 42 Breedsville .10.31 Bridgewater 10.31 Brighton . .10.31 Bronson .10. 31 Brown City. 10. 37 Brutus . . .10. 47 .10. 32 ..10 41 ..10.31 Dowagiac , Dundee Durand Edmore Elkton . . Elsie Fenville Fostoria . Fowler Fremon‘t' . Galien . . Buchanan Girard . . Cadillac Caledonia Camden .10.31 Carleton . .10.31 Carson City. 10.37 Cassr City“ 1.0 44 Caesopol s . .10. 31 'Cedar Cr'k.. 10. 31 Charlevoix .10.42 Charlotte . .10.31 Cheboygan .10.47 . , . . ‘Chelsea ....10.31 . . . Hart, .. .. Chesaning . ..10 37 . Hartford . Clare .. .. ..10 36 Hartland Cleveland T. 10. 42 Climax . . ..10 31 Clinton ..10 31 Goldwater . .10 31 Colon . .1.031. . Columbiav'e 10. 07 Commace . .10. 31 Gladwin Goodrich G’d Ledge Gd. Rapids Greenvllle Hadley ‘ Hamilton Hillman Holland . Holly .. Homer ..k. Hopkins . Constantine Cooper-smile apac . Copemish .. Custer Diamondale Downington E. China. T.. ' E. Jordan .. E. Lansing . Eaton des Elmwood T. Farmlngton Fenton . . . . Fowlerville. Frankenm’h Freeland . . Gagetown .. Galesburg . Gladstone ' Glen 147110141042 . . .1052 . 30.01 30.76 . 10. 31 . 10.31 ‘ . 10.37 . . 10.37 . .10.31 Harbor B’ch. Harrisvllle. %0. 47 I10. 31 Highland I I 111115714119 I ' Howell . .. Hubbards’n . Hudson Ida .. Imlay- Ionia Ionia '11on Iron River . Ithaca .10. 87 Jackson .. .10.31 Jenison . .10.31 Jonesvllle ..10.31 . 10. 31 . . 10. 30/ 27.26 . .10. 41 . . . . 10. 43 numbers 10.87 Lake Odessa10.31 Lakeville . .10.87 Lansing. . .10.81 Lapeer .10.37 Lawrence Lawton . Leonidas Liberty Linden . Litchfleld Lakeland .. Lk. Odessa. 10. 31 Lowell . . . Lakeville Lakeview Lakeville . . Ludington .10.36 . Manchester .10.31 Manlstee . .10.36 Maple Val. 110.39 Marcellus . .10.31 Mariette 0.3 Morley Marshall Mason .. Mabee . Mayville . Middleville Memphis . Milan Moline Monroe . . . Montague Montrose Morenci Morrice . 0. Mosherville 10. 31 ,, . . Mt. Clemens 10. 87 ‘ . Mt. Pleasant 10. 36 'Muir...1.307_.,. Mulliken ..10 81 . gashvilie - . . QWWSO ' . . New Boston 10. 81 28.71 28.71 28.71 29.41 29.51 28.71” 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.-46 28. 81 29. 56 29.51 30.26 28.71 29.46 28.81 29.06 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 29.91 30.66 29.91 30.66 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 28.71 29.46 29.41 30.16 30.11 30.86 10.43 28.169 27.44 23.71 29.46" 27.4s;_2s.71 20.46» .45 23. 71 27. 4e 28. 71 No. Adams .10.81 No. Branch .10.37 Orion-Rudds 10.37 Ortonville ..10.52 Omer .. 8 Osseo Ovid . Owosso Oxford Parilhville 30.41 Parshalv'iie 10.31 Paw Paw >-.10.31 Petoskey . .10.42 Pickford . 10.66 Place 11 . . . ,44 28.26 20.51 Plainville . .10.31 27.46 28.71 Plymouth . . 27.46 28.71 Pontiac. . 27.46 ' 28.71 Port Hope . . . PL Huron . . Portland ~PoaDr.‘ Mohler said: . ‘ “Recent cable news announces an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in England which-brings to mind the serious outbreaks of that disease which have been experienced in the United States. “Foot-and-mouth disease has appeared in Eng- land from time to time, as it has done in the United AStates. Irr both countries the past out-- breaks have been promptly controlled and eradi- cated and no cases have occurred in the United States since 1916. Nevertheless the disease makes, its appearance at irregular intervals. In this though every precaution is being taken by the Federal authorities to prevent the introduction of the disease, especially from the present out- break in England. SO long as communication is maintained with other countries the danger of the reintroduction of the disease must be ack- nowledged. ’ \ “It is of tlic greatest importance that a Sllr‘“[) watch 1m r"H'utained by all officials. by practicing veterinarians, and by stock owners in oroer that the very first cases may be discovered and the [:3 Spread of the disease prevented. It would be a great misfortune to the United States if foot-and- mouth disease should occur under present condi- tions or become firmly established in the country, as has been the case in many of the stock-raising nations of Continental Europe. Early discovery of the disease, followed by proth elimination of infected centers, is the only way to prevent the United States from becoming permanently in- footed.” lupnnjltuunl‘ H.11min”!illiiriuiii'mm w ;1 “But there are difficulties in the way, A few days ago Secretary Lane. in a letter to Congress “V man Kitchin, pointed out that one cement plant which had expected to spend $100,000 on the es- tablishment of a potash by-product system had been unable to do so because the proposed income- mx bill would make the margin of safety too nar- row to justify the investment of new capital. Mr. Lane very strongly urged that in the creation of new industries of this klpd they Should be free _, from heavy taxation on profits until their net prof— ‘- its enabled them to amortize their capital thus in- vested. The suggestion is certainly a wise one. “It can hardly be expected that new capital will go into enterprises of this kind, taking the chanc- es of the uncertainties of after-war conditions, unless there is some assurance that the capital thus invested can be amortized before heavy tax- ation is laid upon its earnings, or unless assurance can be given that industries such, for instance as that of potash will after the war be protected against the inroads which Germany would seek to make by breaking down the market for Ameri- can. potash. “it is possible to bring about the development of a potash industry which would make us entirely - independent of German potash, and thus take from Germany the club which it now holds over the ag- ricultural world in the possession of vast potash resources. The matter is one of such tremendous moment. involving our agricultural independence. our freedom from any power of the German potash ;, monopoly and bur ability to make peace terms ' without for a. moment having to consider German potash. that I feel justified in bringing this matter' directly to your attention in this way. ' “if assurance co id be given by you to all of. the Portland cement makers and to the iron produc- ;. ers of the country that the establishment of by~ product potash plants would have the heartiest en- ' couragement by the Administration and would be regarded as vitally important to the United States now and hereafter. I am sure you would be ren- dcring a. service of inestimable value to all civil- ization. “It is quite‘possible that the government itself should take hold of this potash development, and on some satisfactory basis establish hv~nrndnm plants at all the Portland cement plants and all the iron furnaces, or at least at every furnace where the test Of the raw materials Shows that , potash can be recovered as a by-product. In the; aggregate, an immense amount of capital woul ” be involved, but the Government could well afford to/co-operate with individual concerns in .es’ta lishing such plants‘on a. basis which wOuld be . to the government, fair to the owners of lexISt‘l 7 ; plants, and which would give to the farmers o- ever protect them and this country from them» of the German potash industry.._Mtem I \ I . . . A, I. i. ‘4 _ ‘ V i. 1. ,_the following bulletin: chance on the war’s ending skyrocketing career. . _the past week. . : ers, .11 AU 01‘ MARKETS Now The Bureau of Markets has issued “The Agricultural Appropriation 'riBil‘lwapproved October 1st, 1918, pro- ,|;.;.Vides that a fee shall be charged by the Food'Products Inspection Service .of the Bureau of Markets after the date of the bill’s approval. “Accordingly, beginning with Octo- her 2nd the following rates will be charged for making commercial in- 'spections of- fruits and vegetables: Carlot. $2.50; less than 1,4. carlot, $1.50. “This service is now open to ship- pers and receivers alike. and requests from either of these sources or their ‘ agents wi‘l be handled promptly. “The fee for this service is to be paid by the person requesting the in- spection. and for the present you are requested to forward your check, pay- ‘able to the Disbursing Clerk. U. S. Department of Agriculture, with the written application or pay same to the inspect r at the time of the inspec- tion." . No: 2 Mind No changes in the wheat situation. Terminal markets are still clogged. Embargoes are still on. If the situa- tion gets much worse, farmers may have to wait several ‘months before getting their money out of their wheat unless the government takes some measure to protect them. The peace feelers of Germany which have affected other markets so unfavorably does not, of course. have any effect upon the wheat market. The price for next year's crop has been fixed, war or no war, and patriotic farmers _ are planning another bumper acreage of winter wheat. We cannot take a aefore an- other harvest. by failing to do our duty in this respect. . GRAD! Dohoil mono low York No ZYollov 1.35 1.53 -« 1.75 No. 3 Yolow 1.35 1451.67 lo. ‘Yolow 1.3. 1 35 1."! Tl- corn market has followed a in reverse order. Of all the grains to be hit by the war news. corn suffered the worst. Scarcely a day passed dur« ing the week ending Oct. 5th. that the corn market did not decline a few cents. And as we go to press it is .: ,quoted on the Detroit market at $1.30 ; .3113 compared with $1.45 a week ago. . - Dealers were sure that the bottom of . the market had been reached last week, but their judgment was bad. The market is decidedly weak at the present time and nothing but the bullish kind of war news can strength- en it resflwcrwweszx Chicago New York .72 .85 .70 1-2 .84 .59 31 .‘Oats have withstood the onslaught iofthe bearish influences without much 111111.38. Government purchases and export trade continue to take enor- Tulane . nounts off the market, leav- only enough for the private buy- 151113 1113 price and the market is firm, (1 d CHARGE FOR INSPECT-ION This has had the effect of stabil ‘ mag-ket. Prices hold firm. initial market. “>\\\\ 1.} /1/,’\- b The efforts of the U. S. Department of Agriculture to educate dairymen to the value and comparatively cheap- ness of barley as a stock iood is going to have a big effect in keeping the DETROIT .—Hay market in good condition,. as farmers are not rushing f0 ‘ HICAGO, Oct. fir—Acute weakness which developed corn market today came entirely from news of fresh military successes. . CHICAGO .—Onts showed a. dehllne of 11150 on today' a market. ‘ '- DETBOIT .———Boans on today's market were quoted at 89.25 per owt. GRAND RAPIDS .——Bean market unsettled; both dealers and hunters wary of . months before the government Would"~ o market at a fairly high level when the distillers are forced out of the mar- ket. and growers of barley shbuld feel no pprehension whatever that they will have any difficulty in disposing of the’ product at fairly good prices. There is such a tremendous shortage in feeding stuffs of all kinds that the barley grower can be assured of a market for his product for many years to come. Rye is about “so-so.” The demand is none too good. but at no time this fall have the receipts been plentiful. and as a result of this balance the Rye is new market at price has ruled steady. quoted on $1.62. the Detroit 7 Detroit 50 N 28 $0 29 00 21 50 28 08 Chase 33 00 35 N 30 00 32 00 30 Oil 31 SO ' Cincinnati 32 50 33 00 32 00 32 50 31 00 31 5| Howard. 30 so 31 co :0 on so so 29 oo 30 on New York 41 no 41 50140 no 41 oo 39 oo 41 00 Richmond .1 No No. l ""k'“ 11.1311": canals-ml Clo... Doirolt 28 50 29 .0 24 50 25 06l23 SJ 24 0. Chimr 31 I. 32 50 31 00 32 00:3100 3151: Cinch-oh" 31 W 1 50 30 00 31 50 25 It) 26 00 Pittsbonh 28 50 29 50:27 00 28 00127 00 28 00 Now York 36 0° 37 00. 335 90 37 00 3400 35 00 Richmond Receipts of hay are showing a lit- tle increase, but have not yet affect~ ed the values. Hay the past week has sold as high as $41 per ten for the best grades, an unheard-of price. It is claimed that peace is now the main factor in deterniining the future of the hay market. Should-the war cease. buyers believe hay prices wOuld drop. as the crop is_1_'a_ther large for the present prices to continue provid-‘ ing it must all be. consumed commer- cially. This is the talk among the buyers. but don’t let it scare you J. an . _ 'V Even the peace should be declared to- ” morrow. __it would be another ty days before demobilization c0111 be under way and it would be many cease to be an important buyer. But peace won't be declared (omorrow nor next day'nor this year, So feel pretl, ty well satisfied that prices Will not go much lower. There is little chance either, that they will go higher. and the farmer who has hay for ' sale should now get it onto the market at ‘his earliest opportunity. ‘::>>\.i;eé?:;;E-'<;~e tii-rzi’tmdntfaf 213::- gsgm G E Detroit China now York C. “I. 9.25 10.5: 2.50 Prim. 8.00 9.5 ”.50 Rod Kidoon 'LM 1“ 00 12.50 The same old story, and we've told it so much that we’re getting tired. Market is inactive. M demand. Some dealers claim they anticipate better demand later 'on. but it takes a lot of faith to believe that the market will recover its old- time “pep.” 'All. we can say to our readers who have beans to sell is to keep both eyes on the market the next thirty days; Some- thing ought to stir by that time. ' Ch“. '0‘“ ' Round Wlute “m“ mumps - as... Jon-ii ' > g g an. $20 an: Ch' - . , . 5 cat‘s-"m 2.40 ' 2.30 New York 3.00 2.85 Pittsburgh 2.65 2 50 mand is considerable than a year ago when people boughtr It looks as if the downward trend of . the potato market has stopped. Re- ceipts have fallen off at the primary. markets. and the demand is good. For about a week shipments were the heav- iest in several years running as high as one thousand cars a day. Ship. ments‘have now declined to between 800 and 900 cars which is not too much for the market to absorb. De- "better today their winter supply in small amounts, convinced as a result of the govern- As forecasted by W. T. Foster Futor'o . for _1913 _. E 5 Storm : l '11 ‘1’ Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis- tuxbances to cross continent Oct. 11 to 15 and 17 to 21 warm Waves 1()_ to 1.4 and 16 to 20, cool waves 13 to 17 and 19 to 23. This weather period'will start with cooler than usual and tem- peratures will nca1 Oct. 19. Not much precipitation. Next warm waves will reach Van- couver about Oct. 20 and 25 and tem~ peratures wll rise on all the Pacific slope. They will cross crest of Rock- . ice by close of _JOct 21 and 26 plains sections 22 and 27, meridian 9 great j reaching vicinity of follow about one day behind warm .: ~ behind storm waves. waves and cool waves about one day THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK for MIt‘HmAN 'pends on the soil and, the ,lay Of it, go to higher degrees I lakes and Ohio-Tennessee valleys 23ft~ *and 28 eastern sections 24 and 29., N ewtoundland’ ' near 0012.25 and 30. ,Storm wafer; will re'ci itatmn the 3011113111. the Other j-half the radii ~ 3. (312611151. conditon Business FARMEB ' These disturbances will 1:..clude a period of severe storms and heavier rains than have been usual this was- on These storms will include a hur- ricane on our scuthern seas and severe storms on, the cOntlnent. will put .11 in. good condition, in’ many places, for sowing Winter grain but this does not determine whether \Vinter grain should he sown To a greater extent than usual the sowing of Winter grain with an as: suranCe of good crops in 1919, (16-? whether rolling 01 flat. In some sec- tions no Winter grain should be sewn because of drouth conditions that will prevail thru the Winter and*u to} June -1 ; ’ l\iov}<3mberI willfih 6145:1318. - storm monti w m in about. one half that does fall will 500' May; ff . I . suffering from rat and "j: fr‘Osts cut the yield in practically all fistates Outside of Michigan The gov. r. ' .ernment estimate for October is not .out yet,- but We expect to. see a greatly wdecreased estimate for potatoes. Thé crest of the fail movement has about These faint; — 1‘ than extras 601/; to 61C; Why prices sh‘Ou-ld go Iowa .; We note that Maine potatoes are that early been reached. Farmers are not quite so eager to sell at the prices new or fered by county dealers. "It is well, .:_'1‘hé market should now have eminence to readjust itself? an}. if the farmers market their 'crop gradually, we have every reason to believe that the price , will go well above the dollar mark before Spring Any farmer can at least afford to Wait another sixty days to see what developments take place. A tendency toward higher levels ‘shOuld show in that time” Butter is lower the stampede than was made a couple of weeks ago by -the st rage merchants which sent the ” price Soaring. apparently having ceas- ed to Some extent. Fresh creamery firsts are quoted on the Detroit mar- ket at 54 cents. and c1eamery extras at 55 cents. New York Butter Letter (By Special Correspondent) New Yoflc, Oct. 5-, 1918. “The pend- - _ ulum is now swinging backWard some. " what slowly but surely. During the past Week values have. dropped two cents and the market at present is. very weak with indicatiOns that a sti .1 further decline may be expe :ed The market has been influenced largely by A ' the consuming public refusing to pay such extremely high prices for batten. It prefers to buy substitutes. factor which has tended to weaken the market is the use of storage but- ter. Holders of such butter Consider that now is the time to dispose'of. their 40% holdings, or a part of them, and in consequence fresh holdings have met severe compétition. Many deal- ers, rather than allow an accumulation of stocks of fresh butter, have sold all that they could under existing condi— tions for lower prices. Declines. .- 1n other butter markets haVe also influ- enced this market to a considerable' extent. , The week started out strong. and, Monday showed extras qdoted at 620 with every indication-of an active market. On \Tuesday signs of weak- ness developed but the price remained Another ' .3] the same although very little butter .« moved. on Wednesday there was :-a decline of one cent on all grades 'of butter and Friday followed with a de- cline of-another cent. The market is very weak and, we may look forward to a marked decline in prices in the near, future. Unsalted butter, has been in strong demand, has suf. fered a reversal and very little is mov- ing, atpresen-t. At the close onvFriday quotations on salted butter were as follows: Extras, 60c; higher scoring firsts 571/; to 591/.»c; and seconds, 5110 570. Unsalted butter is quoted at the usual ,Q differential above the corresponding Which A grades of salted, but as stated above, ' ' the demand is at low ebb ‘m L . 938 .m k ’ ‘ ’ ck,- but much higher prices , "d for very soon. All impor, rk' repbrt a decrease in sup- " ..‘wellcsustained demand. at4‘_ . ' " ly -. re .s-4 ,r- is ‘ are in. (”j .I . CR .1 :5” 51“.,“ 3} A" ,_ tainable in many sections. on all g des. -9161 $134 lay an egg every day during, or, Sundays wineluded can '1') ‘ - want. to ' Feed . ' The feed 41491121th is not the least bit _ seem to be observing the government regulations on wheat feeds, but they , are so' .limited as to be scarcely ob- Detroit prices are, bran, $35 to $35. 50; stand- arc middlings, $37.“; 537. 50; coarse cornmeal 560; cracked com, 561. aEast Buffalo Live Stock Letter East Bufialo, _N. Y.,-Oct. 8, 1918——~ ReCeipts of Cattle Monday, 200 cars, including 60 cars of Canadians and 11 carols-3ft over, from last week’s trade. Trade opened 15 to 25¢ higher on med- ium reight and weighty steer cattle , which were in very light supply; but- cherj steers and handy weight steers sold asteady; fat cows and heifers were in moderate supply, sold steady; bulls of .all classes sold steady; can- hers .and cutters were in heavy sup- ply, sold steady; fresh cows and spring- . ers were in very light supply, sold from 55 to 510 per head higher; stock- » ers and feeders were 1.1 very heavy sup ply, sold _fhom 15 to 25c lower than last week; yearlings were in . light supply, sold 25c higher. , 9 ~- With 20 cars 0f cattle. on sale Tl-es- day, which included 10 cars held over _, from Monday, the market was steady on all grades. Receipts of hogs ‘Monday tetaled around 16 000 or 100 double decks. The market opened 50c lower with the bulk of the hogs that sold early selling at 518. 75; pigs, 1825; roughs, 516;} Stags, $12 ,to 515. After the first round it wasimpos’sible tomove any hogs Yet at the clbse there were a few hogs sold at 518. 50. About 30 cars of hogs went over. unsold. ' With 50 cars of hogs on sale Tues- day, including 30 ca'rs held over from Monday, which were not yarded until 8:30 01: 9: ‘00 o’clock Monday morning, our market opened generally 25c low- er. .The‘obulk of ti: hogs sold at 518.50; a few lighter oneSv sold at 518.25 to 518.35; a. few choice heavy decks sold up to 518.60; pig weights sold at- 518; roughs, 516; packers, 516.25 to 516.50; stags, '513 to .515. At the close there Were a number of- decks unsold. The prospects are that . the market will not go much lower, as we understand the government has fixed the. price on an 518 per cwt. basis in Chicago for this month. Receipts of‘ sheep and lambs Mon- day totaled 7500 head. Best lambs- sold from 516.25 to 516. 50 which was 15 to 25c higher than Saturday’s clOse culls; 513-!to 514. Yearlings "~ and sheep werc'slow and sold lower. Yearlingg sold from 511 to 513; weth- ers 511 rto 511.1 5"; Wes, 5.9 to $1.0 Receipts of sheep and lambs Tues- dfiy were ten ears. Trade was slow Best lambs sold from. 16 50; cull lambs, 513 to 51.4; ;;512;- weéhers, 5,10. 50 . o is steady for the . encouraging Deaiei's generally ‘ -' cools and heifers, 57.35 to 513.75; very j ‘ ' "1.50;;- , . 9 “o, 59. 50;. good wt. Ito 59-; light and 1057.50,, good to best steers, .58. 50 to 59; common to fair stock. and feeding steers, 57. 50 to 58; * go'od to choice fresh cows and‘ spring- e1s,590 to 5120; medium to good fresh ' cows and springers, 575 to 590 Detroit Live Stock Market (By U. 8'. Bureau of Markers Wire) Detroit, Oct. 8.———Cattle: Market is strong; best heavy steers, 512- 514. 25; best handy wt. butcher steers 511 to ' 1311.50 ;--mixed steers and heifers, $9.50 'to 510; handy light butchers. 58 to 58.75; light butchers, 57.50 to 58; best cows, 58.50 to 59; butcher cows 57. 50 . to $8. 25; cutters. n6. 75 to 57; canners, 56 to 56. 50; best heavy bulls, 58. 75 to 59; bologna bulls, 58 to 58. 50; stock bulls, 57 to 57. 50; feeders, 58 to 510; stockers, 58 to 58. 75; milkers and springers, 560 'to 5135. Veal calves: Market steady; best. 518 to $18.50; others, 57 to 514. Sheep and lambs: Market steady; best lambs 515.25 to 515.50; fair lambs, 514 to 514.75; light to commo. lambs, 512.50 to 5-3; fair to good sheep, $9.50_to 510; culls and common, 55 to 57. Hogs: Market 20 to 25c lower; pigs $17. 65; mixed hogs 518 10 to 518. 20. Chicago Live Stock Letter Chi! 100. Oct. 8.—«Hogs: Receipts 25 000; market active at early decline of 15 to 250; late top, 518 90; butrhers 518. 40 to 518. 85; light, 518 to $18 50 packing, 517. 60 to 518.25; roughs,_ 517.25 to 517.50; pigs, good to choice, 516 to 517. Cattle: Receipts. 23,000; best 11" ives and western steers steady; medium and common kind mostly 1.5 to 25c lower; butcher ca‘tle weak; canners are steady; calves are weak to 25c lower; beef cattle good. choice and prime 515.25 to 519.50, good and medium 510 to 515.35; butcher stock, can- grades of stock and feeding C 513. Sheep and ”lambs Receipts, U S WEEKLY MARKET REVIEW OF FRUITS Prices to Jobbers and Shipments 'for the U. S. for the Period October lst to 7th Inclusive - ' Celery The condition of celery Sept. 15 in New York, New JerseyAPennsylvania, Ohio and-Michigan officially _eported 79 compared with 77 on Sept. 1, and 82 on Sept. 15 last year. The crop movement seems to have passed the high point. Onions The condition of onions on Sept. 15 and Sept. 1, 1918, and Sept. 1, 1917, respectively in fourteen principal states is reported to the Bureau of Crop Estimates 81 per cent, 84 per cent, 71 per cent. Indlicated yield 406 bushels per acre. The market con- tinues dull and weak with gradual de~ clines in nearly all sections. Eastern and middlewestern yellow stock fol- lowed a Wider and weaker range at $1. 55 to 52 25 per cwt Rochester, N. Y., quoted 10 to 200 lower closing at 51.60 to $1.65 per cwt., stroked fob. Potatoes The potato crop of Canada officially reported apparently above that of last year with heavy increases in New Brunswick. Prince Edward Island and Manitoba and fair to good yields else- where. Supplies are still liberal as the result of the. heavy movement of the past few weeks, but shipments ap- pear to have reached high point and are declining with 5,726 cars this week compared with 6.897. nearly one y11111.1..2 i"lilliii- '17 A 550 RED 9805115 hoi ‘ . Western range; becet steers 514 C;75 cows and heifers, 58. 75 to With 641 last woolen ... . .. as; to. $12. 50: 510; culls, 53 50 to 57 AND VEGETAB' thousand cars a day, last week Prices‘ averaged lower than last Week, the decline having extended to eéetern markets. Prices at some points are not far from those prevailing at the corresponding time last year. Minna~ sota and Wisconsin sacked white stock lost 5 to 100 in carlot markets, closing at 51. 90 to 51 95 per cwt. sack- , ed in Chicago. Moorehead, Minnesota, quoted Red River Ohios firm at 52 to 52. 05 per cwt. f. o b and Waupaca, Wis quoted 51.80 to 51. 90 per cvt. sacked. ‘ Cabbage The official cabbage estimate for ‘9 « H 0 3 1.11 " ewes, choice and prime,‘ 510 to $10. 50; medium and good, 59 to .‘ 1' " principal states Sept. 30 is 541,005 tons ‘ ' compared with 475,220 last year; 252;- 310 in 1916, and 670,631 in 1915. Pric- . es declined further in various eastern markets. New York domestic cabbage; ranged 513 to $15 per ton in bulk'f.o.b Rochester. and ranged 515 to 530 per ton in consuming markets. Colorado shipping points quoted steady at 51 per cwt. trackside. Wisconsin stock ran 540 to 546 in eastern and middle- western markets. Colorado stock ranged $2.75 to 53.75 per cwt. for sales in small lots in southern markets. The- total shipments were 1229 cars com- pared with 1 023 last week. Apples Exports of apples since July 1 to__ Sept. 10 were 47,167 barrels, chiefly to Canada. No. l Wealthy apples Oc- tober 3 were quoted 55.50 to 56 per. .' Price ,‘~ bbl. in Montreal and Toronto. changes during the week were mostly in the downward direction, but values'f in general were fairly well maintained Baldwins still ruled 54. 50 per bbl. f...ob Rochester N. Y., and sold at 54. 90 f..ob. Benton Harbor, Mich Ben Days is Ianged stead) at 53. 25 to 53. 50 per bbl., cash fob Winchester, Va", and tended upward at Rogers, Ark., clos- ing at $4.65 to 54.75 per “‘. bulk. Greenings and other standard variet- ies A’s ranged generally 54 to 54.50 at Rochester. In consuming markets New York and “lichigan Wealthies ranged about stear y at 55 to 56. 75 per bbl., and Virginia. Yorks 54 50 to 55. 25' F.an(y Illinois Jonathans exceeded 59.3" in a few middleweste‘n markets. Ex tra fancy northwestern boxed. Jonas , thans ranged 51.85 to 52.15 at nortlrr western shipping points. and 53 UL. 53. 50 in consuming markets. Extra. fancy Colorado boxed Jonathans rang- ed 52 25 to 52 4O fob. shipping points 1nd sagged to 52. 75 at Denver. Ap- ple shipments are increasing faster than for the corresponding time lastt year The week as movement was, 4858 cars compared with 3,682 last week and 3 .968 for the corresponding , week last year. Grapes The grape crop in the Niagara sec- “(11 of Ontario may not exceed six y per cent of an average yield. Michigan Concords advanced reaching 35 to 37¢ per 4-qt basket fob Benton Harbor. .- They sold at 35 to 45c in leading (118,-. tributing markets advancing fully 50 in various cities New York’Concords reached 35 c f.o.b cash track Wes tfield, closing at this figure Shipments were 2,076 cars compared with 2,836 last week. Peaches The peach movement declin:d very. shar11y with only 79 cars compared with 264 last week At this time last_ year tle movement, 2,170 cars, was very heavy from northern rroduci ’_ sections. The decline this year is do ing partly to the comparative ran of the northern crop and partiy its earlier maturity , Tomatoes Tomatoes declined to 441 pared with 615 last week. ' . Pears . Pears declined to 591 cars compared _. 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Entered as second—class matter, at Mt Clemens. Mich. What Would the 'Militarists Do? 'EADERS OF THE G o. P. forces in Washington who are expected as a matter of course and politics, to disagree with the President on everything, profess to find in President Wilson’s reply to the late German peace note a too eager desire to open peace discussions which they assert are dangerous at this time. “The way has been opened,” congressman, “for Germany to save herself by Withdrawing her aimies within hei own borders rather than by retreat under fire as she has been forced to do the past few weeks.” The American people want to see Germany whipped. Many of them didn’t when we first entered the war. Events that have trans- pired since then, however. have shown us all individually and collectively as a nation that the peace and security of the future lies only in the absolute defeat of Prussia. . The question arises, ‘how badly do we want to whip Gornu—uiyl” Do we want to give her the same bath of blood that she prepared for Belgium? Do we want to destroy her towns and her treasures and murder her helpless civilians as she destroyed and murdered in France and Belgiiim? Yes, yes, yes, a thous 111d t11i111(s,yes,if there is no'other way that Germany can be brought to her senses. Reprisal for reprisal’s sake has been Germany ’s game, but it will never be the game of America. Reprisal upon an en- emy that knows no honor, that ruthlessly, cruelly, wantonly destroys for the fun of de- stroying, may be the only means of whipping Germany into submission. If it is, then God forbid that our hands should be stayed until the bloody task is done. To drive the Prussiaus back to their bor— ders’will cost many American lives. To fight the Prussian upon his own soil will double up the casualty list. But. if it unist be so, we shall pay the price. “We should not enter into peace discussion at this time when boys are dying at the front to crush militarism,” says Senator Lodge. Nonsense—drivel 111aduess. We might expect this kind of talk from a munition manufacturer, but not from a Mass- achusetts senator. A man is as much a trait- or to his country who opposes peace measures as he who opposes war measures. In both [cases the honor of the country, the lives of its ~ citizens are at stake. ’ Germany wants peace. How greatly she Wants it no’one knows. That is what the Pres- ident wants to find out. Her allies are drop- :xpmg from her; the morale of her army and‘ vilian population is badly shaken; winter is inning 011. Germany may be willing to meet very cendition imposed by the Allies. S ' Their catalogs and prices are says an Ohio If so, ., their fighteis . peace proposal put forth ., y' . , this, there need be no cessation of hostilities, no hint that the American people are 81111qu for peace. The effect of an exchaiig'e of peace vievvs at this time will give us the opportunity to re- 1 peat and emphasize again in no unmistakable terms, exactly what Germany MUST do to end the war. And while our diplomats are laying doWn their terms to the enemy, Allied » soldiers will be dictating ‘terms’_’ to Hindeno. burg on the western front. Let the peace pare ley proceed. Where Does the Country Weekly Stand? ANUMBER of the country weekly papers are accusmg M. B. F. of “covertly en- dorsing the Non- Partisan League.” . They are ' wrong. We deny the allegation. But suppose we admitted it, then what? Would we be con- victed of disloyalty, rpro—'Germanism, ~ anti: Americanism by our country contemporaries? To believe one-half that is written in‘ the daily press against the Non Partisan League at the instigation of Wall Street would be an injustice to the farmers comprising that or- ganization. The League has been able to dis- prove most of the charges-againSt it. It is not disloyal; it is not unpatriotic; it has put no stumbling blocks in the way of the govern- ment. The states in which it is strongest. have lead all other states in their loans and contri- bu tions to the government. Should any better evidence than this be required to show how groundless and ulterior are the charges of its enemies? We ,may defend the farmers of the west against the false imputations of commercial autocracy that is trying to kill their organiza— tion, without endorsing the aims and policies of their League. And we DO defend them because they ARE farmers and because they HAVE aroused the opposition of the politi— cians and Wall street. We defend them be- cause we know that this opposition is NOT directed, as it is made to appear, against their leader, Townley, on the flimsy ground of dis- loyalty, but against the farmers themselves; It is to kill all desire, all, opportunity for or- ganization among farmers everywhere that the selfish interests are trying to crush the Non-Partisan League. Could we lend a hand to any. such nefarious program as that? No! We believe it is the privilegepwit is the duty,——of farmers to or- ganize socially, industrially, yes, and politi- cally if necessary. to secure the recognition that is due them. We shall have muchm‘ore to say in later issues not only upon the Non-Partisan League but upon the needs of the farmers of Michigan to satisfy which it may be found necessary to organize along the same lines as have the farmers of the west. In the event of which we wonder where our country newspaper friends would stand'l- . , . A Startling Comparison ALKING WITH R. C. Reed, secretary of the Michigan Milk Producers’ Ass’n, 011 the milk situation a few days ago we learn- ed some surprising facts regarding the rela— tive advances in the cost of milk to the con- sumer and in the cbst of producing: that milk. “In fourteen months’ time,” said Mr. Reed “the cost of milk to the Deti‘oit consumer has advanced” o cents per quart. In the same length, of, time the cost of a pair 'of overalls has advanced from 75 'cents to $3.” We ’vc never had it put. quite so strongly or clearly as that before. When it is-argued that the farmer’s production casts has in- creased, the’ average person vaguely Wonders, what costs the farmer has The popular 11pm. ion is that the farmer as. a producer does lit, tle purchasing; that he performs mill at the labor of the farm with hié own hands; that he raises his beasts of burden and grows enough ' foodstuffs to feed his finally 3 II ‘1 .must buy if lumber y; 3 There is scarcely an 118813113131 article of» Wear He must or utility that the farmers of the nation do not ,buy It follows that an advance in the price of the raw material from which these articles ~ are made, causes a corresponding increase in the farmer’ s production costs. It is amusing to read the oft-repeated State— \ ‘ment that the farmers, having received war- time prices for their produce, are making a . great deal of money Nothing could be fur-- ther fiom the truth. The prices received by farmers for their produce positively HAVE NOT advanced in proportion to the increase in the cost of his raw materials. 1 / Sonic day when farmers are admitted into the councils and treated like human beings, the world may know something of their promising and struggles, but for the time being there - seems to be nothing to do but suffer. .. Turning on the Light “SEEMS KINDA quiet about the old state this week, douche think so, pardner? Politics sorta dead; noboddy cussing Mr. Ford, and nobody white washing Mr. Newberry Wonder what’s up 9” ‘Why, don’t you know, all the Newberry politicians have gone to New York this week. They’ re goin’ to explain to Uncle Sam why Mr. Newberry, being Mr. Newberry, y ’under- stand, Was perfectly within his rights when he busted Michigan’s primary law all to smash by 'spending about a hundred times as .much as the law allowed him to to get himself nom- inated for the senate. Yes, andLuren D. Dickinson, the lieutenant governor of the old state, who has got enough lime in" his back— bone to lend a bit to some of the other prom- inent feller citizens I might mention and never miss it at all, and who is the'proud par- ent of the primary law and naturally feels. kinda peeved when Somebody shoWs they haven’t got any respect for it, has gone doWn ‘to New York too, with his danderxup and coat-tails flying. Mr. Dickinson says there ain’t no doubt, whatever, but what the NeW— berry fellers trampled all over the primary law, and they knew perfectly well they were doin’ it at the time. Well, I hope that court has got enough respect for law to Show the Newberry politicians that they can’t get away Withanything like that. If it hasn’t the Lord help Michigan, It’s ofiices will be bartered ofi’ like steers at an auction sale.” The Farmers Are Doing Their Share HILE THE city of Detroit is lagging in its Liberty loan campaign, and is yet ten to twenty millions short of its quota, agri~ cultural districts are going ‘ over the top” way- ahead of schedule. ' This is not at all surprising. The average city business man puts his spare change into Liberty bonds. The farmer sacrifices, saves and borrows, and he usually goes his limit. When he buys bonds. In the last two loans he has made up the deficit resulting from the 1 default of the city man with ready cash. . 3 It will be necessary in this fourth Liberty loan for the farmers of the nation to subscribe more than their quota if the entire issue is to. be sold. The cities are not ‘coming across” as expected. , They are slackers in the strictest meaning of that term. iTheir men of wealth . are not willing [to make the sacrifices that are j, When the record ' of the fourth Liberty loan is made, the farm~1 er ’11 name shall load all the rest as one who” a part of the farmér’ 8 life. loved his country best and is willing to 339m- fice for her. ' ‘ 11111111 "inn clothed: )llill‘llllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllfllfb lllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllliLl;lllllllllllllllllllllillllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilIllllllllllllllllllllfll:llllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllulllmllHilllllllllllllllllllllllllilillllllllllfllllllflllllfll Milli”!lltlillllllllllllllllllllilIlllilllllllllllillllillllllllllllllllllllllllllHillli'lillilliéllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll‘ii lll‘ill‘lll’l'i'lllll.llib’l'v‘llllllll'llll'llll‘ 111 .E'S'UP’Hr-lpdo teens-r: Hmong—1. herew1th .an excerpt which .wa‘s the downtown Nears- Courier this poet . rticie drops 01111111111 the criticism of ’31 action in supporting Mr. Newberry. are is a call to say something of Mr. he same article, and am therefore sending Your consideration, to use if you see fit. , 111111111111.htm. ‘ ' Osborn to Mr. New berry, and it seems to contradictory, of Mr. Osborn’ s straightforward honest. reputatiOn that he would offer support to the man he had" in the same e istle so sorely scored as a 1law-malter.Does he thin he is showin proper re- to the people" of Michiga china m asst rig to place . espousible a pesitlon as senator- a man who has shows. no little regard for the law, and for right? that 1 he should buy his way into power? It "big business" not 11.31111 5 large sum for Mr. Newborry he is the .man of “big business," and the plain people of have no representative Such deals as this for egos are large] responsible for the 2.;‘1 . ' ' , rld upheaval—etruth or‘ever on the scaffold - f. Wrong orever oh the throne is coming to an end; ,.' the so are demands honor and justice. "—~R.L . We are so pleased with the M B. F. Its fear- leafless in standing for right and justice is an mspiratlon and a hope to the farming class who have always been relegated to the “under dog” position in the economic systems of the world. The first page article for the past week is Worth the price of the paper for a year, to arouse the people who are subject to the rule of selfish polit- ical cheques, both little and big. In regard toMr. Osborn:I s strictures of Mr. Ford, it seems impossible that Mr. Osborn cannot see that he is hitting himself harder than he is Mr. Ford. His grounds are so flimsy for charging M1. Ferd with favoring the Kaiser their minds as conditions change. No one in this nation realized the full aims of Germany when this awful war broke out, or that her tentacles were already spread to grip every nation on ear.th While it seemed possible that kindness could con- ciliatte and peace .and good will could be made the ruling principle to save the awful devasta- tion best e orts to that end, sparing no expense, for which he did not ask to be reWarded. When _ developments disclosed the true intent of Ger- man-y, he changed his mind and sprang -to the '- 1- rescue of Liberty, not only in this country, but for all the world, putting the same generous efforts forth for the prosecution of the war, “wax to the knife, and from the knife to the h1lt ” thereby emulating one of the greatest characters which shines in the history of this republic—Benjamin Franklin=¢—who in the incipiency of the Revolu- tion declared his hatred of war and argued for peace, but who when he realized that the grip of King George was at the throat of liberty, for- , , . seek his peace theories, and flung himself into X the combat heart and soul So calumny can never ' dim the lustre of Henry Ford’s great work .——R. L. M. St. Charles, Michigan‘ Non-Partisan League is Correct in Principle 1 i JYo'u show wonderful courage in giving the Non- = Partisan League a fair Show. We have heard that the “ward politician” is a dangerous man. He gets his orders from the same men as do the ig- norant men in the country who hold influence over the common farmer. The “ward politicians’ “1 know how to make money. but the country heele1 1 is well satisfied if he can get a dollar-and-a-half job “fixing a culvert.” \Many a meritorious re- ”ll of line of these ignorant crossroads “heelers.” You and I know where the influence comes from. The‘Non-Eartisan League“ is correct in principle. 'I am of good old American stock and revolution- ary ancestry and it grieves me to see undoubted pro—Germans handling patriotic funds and shout- ing against such men as Townley. ——R H. Wood, M. D.. Heathwood Farm Lewiston Michigan. The Fight 011 Henry Ford ’ / The effort to defeat Henry Ford for the United States Senatorship in Michigan has reached a red. 1 hot point and gives every indication of getting ; warmer. Certain big interests throughout the ' country are very anxious that a radical such as Fordd‘hall be kept from the United States Senate. The voters are being told that Ford is really pro-german because he wanted to end the war more than two years ago, at a time when all de- cent people were hoping it could be ended with some appearance of justice. -He is described as ' a Socifillst because he is. a believer in public own- 1 h ' ‘tural 11191191101125-1111 is a near An- he supports the proposition that lands still remaining in the own- ed States should be exploited for boot Henry Ford " Great men change ' suffering of war, Mr. Ford put forth his . ‘ it was at the same time. form has been quested by the sneers or wise looks \_ one, have found the paper has lived up to 411mm and . paid dividends on this water. Thick exactly what was done by corporation at- of their goods went steadly up They want no such Christian man as Henry Ford with his disturbing ideas in the United States senate. He could be bribed neither by wealth nor influence. He would have the courage to see that . all honest referms in the law were not blocked by hidden influences. This is the real reason that all the corporation gave noted in your columns the letter of Hon. ‘ newspapers from New YOI‘k to the Pacific Coast flnd Ford to be a dangerous man whose lack of patriotism has New. Thinks M. B. F. is on the Right Track I have been a subscriber to your paper for some years, and am also a. stockholder in two of the farmer elevatOrs in this county and a director in one. I have intended a great many times to write you and tell you of my appreciation of the man- , ner in which you have worked for the interests of the actual working farmer. Your interests may possibly be as selfish as your best enemies say, though I do not believe it, but anyway your paper is the only one that I know of, alleged farm paper or any other, which has any- thing to say about the price that the farmer should receive for his labor and produce All others try to induce the farmer to raise larger crops without making any provision for the price at which they shall be sold either not knowing or trying to conceal the fact that a great many of the biggest crops ever raised were an actual loss to many farmers, and that many times two- thirds of an average crop if it was fairly distrib- uted gave the men who worked for it more profit than some of the bumper crops. And I can see no reason why it is all right to guarantee a manufacturer a sale for his goods and a profit thereon and deny the same to the farmer. It seems to be very praiseworthy and patriotic to give organized labor and capital any- thing that they ask for, but; if the farmer asks for a. little of the same treatment he is a slacker. .And while you are about the price matter why a German lining—Providence I . should the northern farmer have a price fixed on his wheat and the southern farmer have no limit on the price of his cotton? They have had this advantage and have used it for nearly two years, , and now when people are beginning'to wake up and make inquiries they ask that the price be fixed at thirty-five cents a pound, which is about four times what it was worth in 1914, before the war, and wheat is a trifle over twice as much as And as the Government requires all the wool that is raised in the north we are compelled to buy cotton goods at quadru- ple prices with crops raised at double prices, and tools at about the same ratio as cotton. I do notvlive on a. farm just at present but have Spent a good part of my life there, and my sym- pathies are all there, as they seem to be about the only important part ‘bf our’inhabitants who are not organized, or who always had someone else fix the price upon what they produced. Wishing you more success, I am——B.,L. (Mgr. (719711: of Graflot County. Ithaca. Mich. 1" “You Have Lived Up to ,Your Promise” I consider I have received many times the sub- scription price worth of good from the advice given in your paper during the year, and I, for its promise, and more, and if my little one dollar can do anhgood I am glad. I only wish it was more. I say bravo! Grab some more of them' by the neck and haul them up. Too long has the farmer been the stepping stone. for the money makers. A man in, Benton Harbor bought a ton of hay a few days ago and paid $30 for it. Oh, my, didn’t he bowl! “The farmers were getting to be mil- liona’i'res; they were making too much; didnt see what people were coming to, ” and a lot more on those lines, and when asked why he didn’t get out on a farm, he said “well, you see, I aint what, you would call a farmer; I am in business and can’t very well leave it.” eep right after them, M. ‘B. F.-—-Mrs. L. E. ‘18., Go ma. Michigan. Thanks, Veteran Friend I am a staunch friend of the paper and its ed- item. In my opinion they dare to do right in spite of opposition. according to old Gen. Sherman’s version of it, I have some little idea of what hell is like. I often wish the good old General might come back to earth once more to tell us what would be a prop— er name for what is going on overseas nowadays. ,I like to read yolir paper —H. B. 0., Dighton Some of the farmers here hold their wheat at , 1 $3. 00 a; bushel or seed and some are big enough ', ' fto sell for 111, , ml of 359 to every ,,.”I‘hose Who Want 33 00 per bushel from their neigh- - 13 here draw it 15 miles to market and take 82. 08 hot they can get an the market. Gain Mr Farmer, play fair with your. ' I EM help km the Hull. -‘-' . are minimalism: , us to all shareholders and ‘ tor corporation in this ecuntry while the prices I am quite an old boy, and - . ment in the marines. The man,1 it was mung, 1‘ “that the Hun are that cause. on pivoncn ' “There will be fewer divorces," she said to a: _' reporter, “when men treat women as theirnequalsv .. 1 SHE CEBTAINLY lS .. . “Do you know the kind of wife my ideal is?” "1 a married man once said to me. - “Of course I do, ” said 1. Your ideal wife is the ,. kind that’s tickled to death over a birthday pre- sent ot a bag of fiour."——Washington Star. ‘ BET‘RAYED 4 ~The other night 1 ' I went to the theater With a low-brow friend, 3 And the orchestra played ' “The Little Brown Jug " And he thought It was the national anthem ' 11': And stood up, - And I did too. Darn him. ()LEVER MOTHER A visitor to a certain Brooklyn household was duly amazed by the wonderful likeness between: twins. “Why,” she gasped, look so much alike! you apart?" ‘ “Well," explained Tommy, “she finds out by spanking us. Clarenre hollers louder than I do.” ———0akl-and Enquirer. “I never saw two children? How does your mother tell w as HE. ’ _ “Now, Freddy, mind what I say I don’t want you to go oveI into the next garden to play with that Binks boy; he’s very rude.” Freddy (heard a few moments afterwards call- ing over the wall)—~-“Say, Binks ma says I‘m not to go in your garden because’ you're rude; but' you come over here into my gardenF—I ain’t rude.” rude.” Mamma 1111 1"” It 1111.111 111 The new girl in the (ounting room of a daily neWspaper was from thé country An elderly gentleman walked up to her and said: “I would like to get copies of your paper fpr a week back.” _ She replied: _“Aunt,ic has one. 100; you had better try porous plasters, You cunget them just across the street.” 11‘ “'Ol‘lJ) 11121.11 soul: He was a professional conjurer. “Now, ladies and gentlemen,” he said. with a wave of the hand, “this is the magic cabinet. I invite any lady in the audience to enter this cab- inet. I will then close the door, and when it shall be opened again the lady will have dis- appeared, leaving uo trace.” There was an impressive silence until a little, under-sized man in the second row turned to an enormous woman. who sat by him, and breathed eagerly:-_ ‘ “Maria. dear. won’t you oblige the gentleman?" : “It’s no use talking,” said Jar-keen dejectedly, “It’s impossible to make a woman understand the, first principles of financ.”e “’Wl1ats the mattei now?” enquired his friend. “Matter!” ejaculated Jackson “Why, when I was away yesterday, the baby swallowed a penny! And what does my wife do but call in a doctor and pay him two dollars for getting the penny back.” 1 111 "-r1 FIFT) IRISHMLV 111 his book, “From Gallipoli to Bagdad,” “Pad- re" William Ewing tells the story of a. burly Ir- ishman brought into the field hospital suffering from many wounds. “What are you?” asked the doctor. “Sure, I’m half an Irishman.” “And what’s the other half?” “Holes and bandages.” \VRONG END UP The wife of a clergyman warned him as he» went off to ofifiiate at a funeral on a rainy day: “Now, John, don’t stand with youi bare head on: ‘ the damp ground. ” u ma conLn‘N'r BELIEVE 1'1: .1 The lieutenant at the Marine recruiting} ta 121011 was examming a husky farmer for jenl bad eyesight and could not read letter high at twenty feet. He could not and that should keep him out of service. _ _ “You’ ve got to have good eyesight t ‘- 4 those Hans,” he was told. . ' ' ‘ “Yowdon’t mean to tell‘me, ” he sai Here’s a Fine Farm Home " RS. 11’s letter which follows, is one of the most helpfully suggestive that I have receiv- . ed. It telb the story of the average farm, "home under average (renditions. It is not a story of wealth and ease; neither is it a story of poverty and struggle It tells how she and her husband, :gtho in only moderate circumstances installed in' a house built forty years ago the conveniences“ 7‘ that are today as much a part of the modern city home as the doors and windows. It shows how many farmers, who perhaps-COnsider themselves _too poor to equip the farm home with these con- - veniences, may by tl-e use of a. little ingenuity and’at a nominal expense make the living condi- ' tions in their homes fully as desirable as in the homes of the more affluent. In all cases the cos‘ of making farm home im- 1 movement; is iIn-considerable compared with the ' immense satisfaction derived from them. Not so -- many farmers, I am glad to say, as there used to be, but still a few, cling to the old idea that what served the purpose in father’s and grandfather’s time will serve the purpose today. But that is only partly true. What served the purpose in grandfather's time because there was no substi- tute drives the children-from the farm home of the twentieth century into more congenial and comfortable surroundings, particularly if they know their father can afford these conveniences but refuses to buy them because of his good old- fashioned ideas. I think there is a growing tendency among farmers to take more pride in their homes. Farm folks visit more today than they used to. The Settling up of the country, the community meet- ings. the automobile have been large factors in developing the farmer’s social nature. It is a mat- ter of pride with nearly everyone to have their homes looking neat and attractive and comfortable when company comes. It is only natural that When Farmer Jones suddenly decides to put run~ ning water and a bath in his house that Farmer Smith immediately upon his first visit to the Jones home after the improvements have been made. should vow that the Joneses should never have anything better than the Smiths and go and do likewise : The average prosperous farmer of today boasts of a home that is replete with the conveniences we have discussed in these columns. True, thous: ands of prosperous farm homes do not have them and never will have them. Quite true also that thousands of farmers. free their farms of indebtedness and as a result are quite unable to invest in these conveniences at this time, will some day as the farm business progresses, make them a part of their homes. Such as these, who have ambition to do, courage to sac- rifice. faith to keep going. will find no hardship in having to do without all but the most essential of farm home appurtenances. For the dreams of the future and the anticipation of the comforts that success may buy. reconcile us all to present conditions of living which for the time being we cannot remedy. I have received lette1s from several farm wom- en telling how they eaxn their pin money, but I wish I might have many more. Almost every woman should be ,able to contribute something along this line which will serve as a suggestion to some other reader. Please do not hesitate to tell us abdut your chickens, your last summer’s garden. or whatever the source of your “pin mon- ey” income. Then we’ll compare 1.0tes ad see who has the best and most successful plan. Af- fectionately, Prim-norm. llillllQHilillilllllllilliilltiillliillililitlllllidlll 1 r llmllllllllllllllllllIiHIIiHillllllllllliillllilllllIlililllmmilll HII?tillViiilllllillllllllllllllllllillmlllliUNIlHm”WillllllllllliilllléllititltlilIililliili'lilillllllililli lllllllillllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllliHliilllllltllllltlllii t It t EAR PEVELOPE:—-—As the subject of farm Dhome conveniences has come 11p againsl will 5: say something. First, I want to ask, Pen- ?" elope, if the woman who carries swill, as a rule 3 is the kind who will set her-foot and keep it Now, don’t think I never arry a pail of far from it, but 1 don’t make .3 business “sot ?” swill; of it. Two years ago we installed a gravity water sys- tem, a 1174. horsepower gas engine and power wash- r We had acetylene gas, so we put in a_ plate of svo burners go, with two upwrights and a wing added ,some, years later, then the kitchen was taken for-a1 3’ Communications to:- 111115 pate . Pensions, Puffin struggling along now to . Our house was built forty years ' ning room, and the pantry left without a door 11111 11.1.. dressed to Home on“. Mil-3 lemons. Mich the woodshed and made ' bathroom. turned the woodshed into a washroorn which also Contained . separator, and engine, and built a new woodshed and porch. :Words cannot expresS what a- differ ence this made in my work. ' . A moist air furnace. Was put in at the same time, in the largest cellar that We thought So the dirt and ashes are a thing of the past. The engine pumps the soft water upto the attic over the bat-.hroom (The pump is in the wash room also) and turns the separator at the .same time, we use the same pulley that runs the s'epai- ator for the churn, so that I Usually do” my churn- - ing when I Wash, or in the morning when '«I‘am doing up the milk dishes; The' floor in" the wash- room is CemenT'sloping toward a sink in the floor which drains to the sewer, a septic tank made of cement that all the water from the bathroom and the kitchen sink also runs to. A hard water pump is at the light of the kitchen sink, so we pump hard water by hand ,as it is always fresh then. Another very handy thing is a cupboard between ‘ the dining 100m and kitchen with doors on both sides. This all cost at the time it was installed about $1,000, besides what we did ourselves. We hired all plumbing and carpenter work but did most of the cement work. A mason was hired to lay the What’s the Use? HAT’S the use to worry. You’ve not got long to stay— Why not- take things easy .43 you poss‘along Life’s way? ”Twill do no good to worry If things are going wrong; You may as well be pleasant— Méct'rcverses with a smile and song What‘s the use to criticise. _What’s the use to knock..- What’s the use to ridicule. Or at some to throw a rock! Don't appoint yourself a censor, No matter what you (10—. This great big-~100’rld was never made For just (1 chosen few. Thcrc's none of us that‘s perfect, There’s a few of us that stay 4nd never strut] or wander F1 om the straight and narrow way. So when you start to hammer Some poor fool who’s gone astray. ”Twill do no harm to pause and think You may lose your grip some day. It was ceiled so «x. chimney and do the plastering. we ’put on plasterboard and pulp plaster. Now, last but not leas‘ screened porch. \It is the greatest blessing I have. Very few flies, and .it is such a nice place to sit and get vegetables ready. It is toward the gar- den, and the water is just a step in the door, so very little dirt is carried in. The M. A C. sent. us a man to lav out the septic tank and it is surely a success With help so scarce and-So expensive, Imost believe it would pay to do it now, even if it cost $1,500, altho I hardly think it would cost that. Well, it is growing colder. One boy will soon be gone to college and army training, and we will be left with the last boy, 17 years old, to do the work of three a year ago. He has good cdurage and thinks he and dad can handle 175 acres ,with ,a tractor and a few more double hitches-.14 only we can keep him and his courage, it will mean much. For the boys that are gone must be fed. Well, that’s encugh of that, so I will tell you about a few makeshifts I have. for my pantry, so I used my incubatOr with an oilcloth on top, it serves the purpose Before start- ing the furnace fire, we move the couch into the kitchen, eat on the kitchen table, and in fact,- we live there Unless company comes, which is quite frequent, we are there most of the timer—4U s my sunniest room x A! 3': helps remove the . apples. When I use snbstftnt‘ I‘M” J L J. St, John}: 2110111371191 'wé . could hardly spare, but We have hardly missed it ' 1' I I want to speak of my I needed a table- 1., The Kitchen Kerner -"- EAR PENELOPE: -l; am one of yoiif er‘s Who do not like to use a recipe th am not sure has been tried and proven g _ . I am always afraid my material may .be Wasted; and among those government recip‘ s, in'partic lax, so many call for such large . make“ dishes far too large for my smith family, ' Mrs. 8. Kent County. ] -¢__,-. I shall be only too willing to send you some-of my recipesggwhich I know are economical and’ . good; and I am sure others will be glad to do. the seam, er I believe the average farm Woman is prOud of her cooking ability and is always amt» ions to exchange her recipes. Here is a: recipe; )- for peppersauce, which may be made up in a short "g _‘ time, is not expensive and makes:{ an excellent " relish for cold meats. This may also be used as a sandWich filling for the lunch box: Chop 4 red peppers, 1 large cabbage, 2 cups of on- ions a-_nd 2 cups of celery; add '3 cups of broWn sugar, 3 tablespoons salt, 1 quart of vinegar and Sets worth _, of white mustard seed. Mix and can cold.‘ Another dish we are particularly fond of is es- calloped squash: Boil and mash the squash. let it cool, beat the yolks of two eggs, and when squash is nearly Cold Whip these into it with 3 tablespoons of milk, One of butter iolled in flour and melted in milk , pepper and salt. to — taste pour into a greased baked disn, cover with bread crumbs and bake to a light brown in a quick oven. CREAMED SALMON O‘R TUNA FISH ' _ One can of salmon, one teaspoon of lemon juice, salt, one bunch of celery chopped, one cup 'of bread crumbs. one egg. Stir all up welr, place in baking dish and pour over it one and a half cups of- hot milk. Bake from 15 to 20 m‘mutes, or until a good brown : Whenever I come across a new dish I Shall try . and send it to you. —Mrs. M. C. L. Macomb'. ca ' < .A Few Helpful Suggestions on Fall Styles. The skirts will be longer _but very; narrow this year The peg top or full hip is not as 1101111111, 3.: the many of the suit skirts are draped. * n: ' Suit peckets are getting longer. Some. of the latest reach nearly to the knee, and' are strictly tailored. __ Serge and jersey are the predominating mater- ials for one- -piece frocks. They are trimmed with buttons, colored embroidery motiffs chenile and the newest idea is fringe. White linen, organdy, silk or georgette collars are worn with these ' dresses. They are separate in order that they may be easily laundered. . The poke bonnet effect in millinery is seen a ' great deal,- especially for misses and yOung wom- - ' en High draped crowns on the sailor style hot. makes a most attractive model for street wear. . The aviator Cap is worn by both little boys and - girls and their older sisters. The small sizes in .- wool are selling at $1.50; large size, $2 00 'In, satin they are $1. 00. ' Alice blue and old rose is one of the most pop- ’ular combinations for both children and grown ups’ clothes. A11 Alice blue coat with hat of old iose is charming for little girls. 01d Dresses Need Not Shine ._ MANY a good woolen dress or sui- has been 7 1 E E g . '5‘ E =- is F- 3 E \ - mumm- reluctantly laid aside by its wearén"be~ause the skirt had acquired a shine that stube ' bornly refused to come,offr In" these days, when " every discarded woolen garment is being calledV - back to service, the houseW‘ife will welcome the following suggestions from the home economics workers at Iowa State College for removing shine from Woolens: , Press wool material through a wet woiolen cloth The nap of the pressing cloth will pull .up the ' nap of the garment. . . ~ Press wool material with a piece of wet crino; line over it (White ‘for white materials, black 101‘ _ dark materials). The crinbli'ne will Stick to. the ' ' wOol and will pull up the nap. - Press wool material thru heavy wet coaton cl, 'IrOn until. cotton cloth i}; (11‘), Just the clothea in place it. over the material rub the \4" a n‘nr-“i‘;:*¢§i'iir°dkn° ~s -0 . s s‘ es ‘1' ,«an‘ ifdie is held‘together With gnar- . , » feelsku'they di‘iridezher‘ height. t§BQ3h§sdown 5' g 'the‘ e so :01“ " .. ~.lue use. a of WOOL V ' fourégored gathered ”.9226, 28, 30 and 32 sure; ; ~-This style will ea! to the short 'waisted es the separate skirt, but . . 9 This idea ‘sh’i‘IWn'ihf‘cujt. has a yoke across the front Mane-wean "*ctily. onto-which the front gore is gath— ered,-y1'ith therem ning gores gathered ’10 .the‘SI’ightl'y raised waistline, and flu- W. (Sinks Whiskers-lacedthru"eyelets»:lined.Nth a7 narrow belt. in .‘gfrdio and tied; A cotton Mesa «finished material wouldlmake irah_\ in such-3a {style and could q-With a. stripped. 0r. figured 'A delf bide; trimmed in cream or black . 118,: 1:08 or ..combinations' " for, . _ 6.4Boys'fiSuitzy (jut in siZes years.;‘ A style for both play suithforz the-:little boyw~ The Kid at lower , edge, knee so ,is‘rfin eoat‘style, donb-s with . . patriarchal is held in - _ , . it . .3 belt. ot,the material - -. ,9 leg . . belt: .,-N.arrow ,turnuba’ck Joli? $13131 hellongor‘short fitted sleeves. - $5 life he? slighflgood locking repp, . ' . nan , be gr; _ one can easily find something so flint), but‘ the other materials 'make . smartdittlejsuitsr and for the child in- doms the cottOn suits are usually warm enopgh. .If a dress suit is desired and one that-Will be- warm and suitable for all ‘ winter Wear. try‘ a piece, of cotton cordus . roy. or velveteen“ It will wear many seas- fins and may be steamed and cleaned eas‘: No. 8980.——Ladies’ ,Blouse. A soft, graceful style for the suit blouse is here shown. The yoke effect is given by the «back extending over. the shoulders and the.square-cut shawl collar has. deep ‘ frills; gathered .underneath :nd joining the'shirred inset vest. Long, full sleeves ‘ aresoftly bandedin at the wrist, with narrow corresponding frills falling over Aheh‘and. The “suit blouse of: today is genbra’llymade to match the color of the . “suit and-toned withwhite or a harmon- ' "filing, color. A new blue suit with a »navy;._:,blue. Georgette blouse, make, a most "attractive costume. The blouse may be headedfiwith a few bright beads or em- , idered. to givephit, a little color, but if madoof folk blue a simple White Georg~ ette collar "may be’ used to, relieve the sameness. This pattern is 'cut in sizes 36,738, 40.12 and 44 inches bust meas- .-ure." ' .<\’ - ‘ g ' ‘ .No‘. .8997.——.-Misses' and Small Women’s ’ uLongy-Waist'ed”DreSS;' Cut in sizes 14; 16, all-and. 20pyfiears. This style is always." becoming to..small...people and now that - it is» so. popular ,girls of ,all "sizes are ' . _ This: particular style is ad— pted ‘tofconservgtion-meas’ures. An old suit. or coat might easily be converted 'tntothis dress. .The waist» - straight- -iine;.shirtwai’st style tow-the h liner and the skirt ‘Section' is ,twofpiece. .wnth straight. lower edge and. gathered all around, to 'the waist. e‘. The sash laces thru bound slits 'made in .rhp waist and poplin ' J - I measure. shapedé‘lettwside front,’ 9 heavy percales for- ,_ ,{ipercalesare no doubteth ' . practical, on account of laundering“ No. 89'68.—-—Ladies‘ one-piece ”us. Cut .in sizes 36, 38. 40, 42 and 44 inches bust The waist is simply a shirt- jwaist with a panel both front and'back. made together with the waist. Fro the waistline the panel may hang segrate, giving thejpopular apron effect. The ki- mona sleeves are also shown on many of the new~.fail frocks. They are finished . with bands of the material ed for pan- els ahd narrow roll collar. " . Top Shelf} Reserves . FRUIT LEATHER . Nowis the time to revive such old- tashioned delights as fruit “leather" and fruit paste. “Leather” may be made from berries ,cherries, figs. apri- cots, peaches, and blue plums. OVBI" ripe peaches and apricots are best for leather and all fruits should be thoroly ripe. ‘ Mash to a pulp, spread on light- ly oiled platters and dry in the sun or'the’dryer. When dry, sprinkle with 'sugar.. roll up like a jelly roll. cut in slices, sprinkle with sugar and pack ed as substitutes. 1' liced. ,only'aw sprinklinglofl ug ., -. ‘ ‘Serve'this leather inwi‘nter instead of candy or with cream CheeSe and 'nuts' for dessert. Fruit leather may be soaked in Water and psed for pics, Shortcake, puddings and sauces. When intended for this purpose omit the sugar. . FRUIT PASTE ‘ Fruit paster are' made by boiling down fruit pulp, adding sugar and drying out slightly. Practically all fruits can be used in making this paste. Mixing the fruits improves the flavor. CHERRY PASTE Select ripe. sweet cherries, place in kettle with two tablespoons of wat~ er. cover tightly and steam slowly un- til enough water forms to allow them To cook slowly without burning. Boil until soft. rub pulp through sieve, re- turn to. fire and cook slowly until very thick. Weigh pulp, add half its weight in sugar. let it dissolve, return to the fire and boil until the paste is so thick that when a spoon is passed thru it the mags does not run together immediately. ~ Pour fruit iii-haltinch layer in liar. dishes rubbed lightly with salad oil and dry in a draft for two days. Cut in squares or fancy shapes. place in ‘wax paper, springle with granulated sugar. leave in draft two days, dip in sugar and pack in tin or Wooden box— es lined with paper and with paper be- tween the layers of pastes. ‘ " The List of Substitutes is a long one so that every housewife will be able to select the ones best wired to the tastes of herself and family. \ State Demoérats' and Republicans- , . Endorse. Woman Suffrage; 9.; 9 ’- ~“In“. accordance“ \ff' 1: the. "p,.ledjgo3:;o; the 4 National Democratic platt', adopted at St. Lbuis in Ju‘nesvfif‘lbg we commend to the voters *‘of light}, gap the granting of suffrage to women on the same, terms. as men by:;.thi"s- ’” state at theflapproachin‘g,Novsmber election. _ “Confident of the rectitudefjofour' If purposes and the patriotismp’fj-gohr‘ . program of political actionyweg call upon all right thinking men ”Midi- . igan to rally to a support of theiDem-I ocratic ticket» at this electiodfflésba ' lution passed unanimously by Demo- cratic State Convention at Detroitr. September 25th, 1918. ., _. "We believe the time has comewhe-n -- Michigan should extend theright of? suffrage to women on equal terms with ,' . ' men. and we endorse the Constitution-c. ' looking toward that. end, to be voted upon at the Novem‘-;;_. a1 Amendment ber election. and call upon ‘the voters of the state to adopt it by emphatic majority. . ' ' “We further favor the immediate submission to the several states of the proposed amendment to‘ tie Federal Constitution . granting suffrage. to women, and we call upon the legisla- ture of Michigan to ratify such at -end- . men-t when so submitted."——The' Re; publican State Convention September 26th. 1918. embodied in their-plat- form. Corn Meal, Com Flour, Barley Flour, Rye Flour, Buckwheat li‘lour, ()at Flour; Rice Flour. Potato Flour, Sweet Potato Flour, Peanut Flour, Bean Flour, Kaflir Flour, Milo Flour and Feterira Flour and Meals may be purchas- All of the above, except Rye Flour, must be used on the basis of at leascl pound of substitute to every 4 pounds of pure wheat flour. be used on the basis of at least 2 , "Lily White “The Flour the best Cooks Use" flour. above basis. 9 ' ' ‘Oulr Domestic Science Department " 'nlngcharts upon request and will aid you to solve any other "I '. hitched problems you may have from time to time. Public demon: strations also arranged. Address your letters to our Domestic sci9n99. Department. \ \ Rye Flour must pounds to every 3 pounds of pure wheat is a-IOO% pure wheat flour, so is necessary to buysubstitu‘m with it on the However, Lily White is so well milled and of such splendid quality y0u wnfl .. not experience difficulties in using substitutes with it on the baSIs given by the “ 'Food Administration. / l l‘ A; f. In fact, You will be delighted with the splendid baking results you will be able ’-to__0btain from the Use of LILY WHITE FLOUR and the substitutes. 7 Your dealer is instructed to sell you LILY WHITE FLOUR on the Guar— " antee of. perfect baking satisfaction or the return of your money. furnishes recipes and can- ¥ ”ALLEY CITY ~ MILLING COMPANY ‘l . Grand Rapids, Mich. . . ' ’ ‘ Addie“ all MllersloAunt antelope, are Mayan W iii .,R boys and girls: ~October ‘ rely here and old Jack Frost lipping around nights when all fast asleep and nipping 11d and blossom; but even so ~ "'fihas its pleasures, fo1 you all , er I am sure, what a holiday 11- and pranks. comes in this ,3plans all made for a Halloween ration. Perhaps some are going ~ve parties in your homes, others ‘V,meet on the corner for a corn t"and then out for a lark—but w ateyer youhave planned to do don't think itvwould be a splendid idea ‘ tell some of the other children in I’d verent parts of the state and ex- ,hunge your ideas. The same old games may be new to someone 'else, and theirs new‘ to you ,How I wish you would, this week and next, sit down and write me any suggestions you may have on a suc- aesful Hallowe' en party. If you know any real good games to play, explain how to play theiii—or you may have a little contest that would 4: be apprODriate Tell us what you ‘Will serve for refreshments. Ut‘ ,, course, my suggestions would i)‘.‘ old- ‘ fashioned, for it was so long ago that I was a. little girl, but I will try to ”think of some too. He sure to mail "fyo’uvr letter before the 19th or it will 'be‘too late to be used. Loviuglye— ‘AI’NT PENELOPE. . ‘ THE NEW GARDEN sum; ‘Johmm'e get your hoe. get your 1100, " get your hoc; Mary dig your raw, dig your row dig your raw; Down to business, girls and. boys, Learn/to know the gardner's joys! Uncle Sam in need pull the weed, plant the seed; While the sunbeam; lurk do not Shirk Get to work. All the lads must spade the “ground. All the girls must hustle round. Chorus Over thcrc,.eoer (here! Send the werd, send the word ever,- there- That the lads are hoelng, the lads are Maine, The girls are shooqlng eo’rywhere. Fach a garden to prepare. Do your bit so that we can all share With the boys, with the boys, the brave boys, ' Who will not come back till it’s over £67“ there! (Writ en to the tune. of “Over There ") Save the Peach Stones and Serve your Country girls if they love their country or if they would like to do something to help win the war. Every letter I get from you breathes patriotism and a desire to do something that is worth while. I have tried to show you ways IDO NOT have\to ask my boys ’and in which money could be earned to buy Thrift stamps or how you could help your parents with the light work about the farm so that they may turn their attention to the larger and more important duties. Some of you have found it easy to earn and save to buy' stamps but others have found it dif- iirult. But please don’t feel badly about that. Here's a way that every child from baby up to big grownup broth- er can deal most valuable service to their country. Save peach stones. Now that may seem a strange suggestion, but it isn‘t, I’ll tell you why. Not long after Germany starte this terrible war, her men of science dis- " covered a gas that; con (1 be spread in ' huge quantities and for a great dIS-~ tam-e out fipon the battlefields. This ,gas was poisonous and for soldiers to, breathe it intertheir lungs meant death or at least a long illness. To protect the soldiers from the gas. the other ' nations made a “mask” which covered thenose and the mouth‘ of the soldier and when the Germans let the gas loose, the soldier puts on his mesa and breathes the air~from an air tank which he carries, instead of the pois- oned outside air. But what has that got to do with peach stones? you ask. Everything. in the making of gas masks large quantities of charcoal is \made from various kinds of material, but the only charcoal that can be used for making gas masks is secured from the pits afscertain fruits and h sheila. at certain 111115.. The Red Cmss is making a cellec; ition oil these pits and shells for the " ” American army and a call has been- issued to an boys and girls in Amer- ica to lend a hand in gathering them. The only pits that can be used are of peach, plum, prune, apricot olive, I . cherry and date; and the shells of Brazil nuts, walnuts, hater-nuts and hickorynuts. Now do you See the connection between gas masks and,- peach stenes? 1 I want every boy and girl who reads this page to Join in this great cam' , paign for saving the lives .0! Soldiers. in France. Gather all the peach stones that you can find. Save all the shells from the hate you crack. Have a show and from 25 to 5 f1 nit pits for admis- sion. Do anything you can think of- fo gather these stones Get your play mates to help; Organize a club'a-ud adopt a "Peach Pit Pledge,” and: I would like to see'you marching/proud- ly up to the rooms of your local Ret Cross, with pockets and baskets bulg- ing with the result of your pledge. I want to make this a great cam- paign in which all 01’ my nieces and nephews will take part. In order to encourage you. I have decided to give FOUR Thrift stamps to the boy' or girl who writes me the best letter on their plan of gathering these/pits and shells. And to the one who re- ports the -largest number of peach V ”In” Will/u. adventure of their lives. Never ore, has .there been so much ex- enient'in the Wonderland of D00. 1 no wonder. Do you see that - locking pair of eyes glaring no dark cave? They belong little fellow; are bound .wfll capture it. me 111 affair they have rigged ‘ wigs lucky tor them that the ‘ b alkin’g stick see what ’ . offered to hold the halt. The Bee Dads Try to Capture the Gazooka Doo. ground above a. cave. First they fastened it onto the Then they pull- ed it over with a rope and fastened that big stone to it. Next they at- » tached the rope with a noose ”at the end to it. But the biggest joke of all is to get the Gazooka to came out. They were at a loss to know what to do till Percy Haw Haw, the nge, Here he is. suffocating from the clothes 9,111 on his nose to keep from odor of the cheese Sandy, the Piper, is helping to entice the GazOok’a out with sweet: music of his bag pipes. Roiy is 1101,, in; the lease out and as soon ' Ga'zooka gets its head throu noose Poly will cut the; big shears and the cane” _ up. Then the terribl , 9d (I Will ' come out? That is what is pmling the D00 Dads. Flannelfeet the cop ‘ is watching If h‘e don"t look out that" .30ung rascal will push him. 0V8? in“) ‘. the QaZookafs den. Smiles, the clown arge all the children , I Threat“! nqmefs are Rose. 'NB‘W Topsy, Cherry, Star. 'j ' f ;.- are ~ -. ‘ Topny'gJMwntain, Eli, Colonel and Queen. There is no woods on], our farm, only a; few‘trees. We have .a small orchardme have 10 yellow transparent trees all of which have apples on, flare loaded" We also have a few,. flowers which are Tiger Lillies. , Easter limes and roses." We sowed some Aster-s, Sweet Peas a , Sweet Wiidnmm this year. I why” theyqu in bloom no'w as there is 110in I love better than flowers. The fields on our farm vary 'greatly in size, some being 5 acre fields. some 8 and 10 acres, one which is 2‘8 and another 16 and till an— other --12 acres. We have 9 es of ,oats, 293; acres 0f corn, 2% acres other- 16!. 32..acres of beans, some potatoes and pasture land. We also‘had 18 acres of hay. There isn’t any brook on our farm but there is ariver about a half mile from here which—is called “The Salt River."- It seems to be quite a. resort for the young" .folks near by. The lake nearest our place is 'Stevenson Lake, about 10 mileis distant. Will slose for this, time.— Cora Mitchell. Clare, Mich. R. 7. . Dear Aunt Penelope: I saw in the M. B. Fwthat you wanted the, children to write on the subject “My Home.” Well my‘home is a large old style frame house. From the time we get up ‘in tic morn- ing till night we can hear the birds sing- ing which ma it very pleasant. Our home has a se ’ flag in the window for a dear brother who is soon going over sea. Our hopes are that he will return when victoryis wan, he is now at Wash- inxton D. C. 00.. B. 08 Engineers. We have over 100 fruit trees, a row of maple trees along the road and a. big willow tree in the yard.» We have a. row of our- rant bushes and two rows of grapes. There are roses, lilacs, gladiolas and house plants and the dear old Sun-Flow- ers. We have 13 head of cattle, 6 head of horses, one little colt and 5 pigs._ I live on an 80 acre farm. I have $1.76 in thrift stamps now, but I am afraid that I‘ will not win one from you, so I guess that I will have to get around and earn them some other way.—-Sylvia Mc- Carron, ‘Gagetown.. Dear Aunt Penelopez—My father takes the m. B. F. We, like it very much. ,We like to read the little letters in it. We go to school every day. I am 12. and in the 8th grade. .1137 sister Helen is 10 and in the 6th grade. Here are some ‘ verses» she andl .made up. I hope you will like ,them.—‘Ruth and Helen Dun- ham, Beaver-ton, Michigan. . Bring the good old Yankee boys. We’ll sing another song. Sing it with a spirit \ That will help the war along; it as we used to sing ‘ ' With. fifty thousand strong, While we go marching to Berlin. - , ‘ (Chorus) Hurrah! Hurrah! say the Yanks un- to the Hun. Hurrah! Hurrah! You will hear our great big sun. And when we “can”. the Kaiser, We will certainly havesome fun, While we go marching to Berlin. “Pershing’s dashing Yankee . boys \ like to write also. . ' We have two cows and two calves. have 9 ducks and chicken which we call George. and 8 sisters, one is dead. old and am in the 6th grade. brother has 2 fl Dick, the other is Free-and-hqual. have two tame pigs. I have lots of fun on farm.——Very truly Yours, Will never reach Berlin."- So the saucy German said, And never thought of it again. Had they not forgot, alas, Their ranks were getting thin, While we go marching to Berlin.” ‘So, we’ll make a. thoroughfare ; For democracy and her train, Sixty miles in latitude, Three hundred -.to the main. Prussians fled before us ‘ For resistance was in vain. While we go marching to Berlin. Dear Aunt Penelope:-—-I have never written to you before. I am a. boy 12 years old. I am living on 3. 12041011 ‘ farm for the winter. and think next sum- mer; my real home is in ‘Kalamazoo. The people I am staying with take the' M. B. F. and enjoy reading the boys’ and girls' letters and poems. We have, of course, cows. horses. 1108s and chickens. I have thought of two names that might be used for our page they are “Build- ers of Democracy” and “Sons and daughters of Uncle Sam. School,-will start tomorrow morning and so I will close now." You see I don’t want to be a lasyrbones the first day.—-.-Geo'rge Mac- Donald, Sand .'Lake, Michigan. Dear Aunt Penelopez-a—I have never ~written .to you before,~ but I like to read thedetters. from other children. I have one War. Savings Stamp. I think they are a good thing to help Uncle Sam, in this war. 1.,haye no real close relation tartan-war, but there are two or three boysirom this; neighborhood. who have tone. ‘We have a span of mules, a mare. and. 5. Dutch Proces Lead, cwt., “" , Semi for. Color Cards _ PAINT SUPPLY -HOUSE 420 Michigan Ave.. CHICKENS SICK GBRMOZONB. AI will) 5 book poultry library free. H. LEE C0., Dept. 416 immnuumn“, CENTS And that three words in film ' type for Just 30 per word _‘ one insertion under this ‘ word; five insertions, 100 per word. mm as one word each initial and each group j Send stamps or money 01m. Think, it would cost you $900 for m. alone on a letter to each of our , MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING]; WANT AD. DEPT., DETROIT, LIICIIIGAN. FORDS START EASY in' cold WW7, with our new 1919 carburetors. 34 mflea‘. per gallon. . Use cheapest gasoline Increased power. In Veiw slow on high. At- Big profits to agents. Reno. Colds. Canker? : Bowel Complaint, Lim- mou dealer! or 75: _ no son! an, half kerosene. for any motor. tach it yourself. Money back guarantee. Air-Friction Carburetor Co., BUILD YOUR PERRY 3m NOW.—Get ready for the season next year. .. building my Broader and licenso turf dollar bill. Don’t wait and wish’you.; . Perry, 37 Henry St., Detroit, I , . Complete ,plans' WANTED -- CLOVER SEED , Am; Please submi ' an average sample of any quantities want to sell and we will tell you wh in the dirt or cl We believe we can make you a price t will look attractive. Millington, Michigan. FOR SALE 5000 lbs. sand vetch, imp... about 98 and 100%. . 16c per lb. Sacks free. _ Ogren, Manistee, Mich, RR. 2 Box 123.“ is worth either Sioux City Seed Co Sample free on PURE ROSEN RYE $2.00 per bu. your bags for what you want to Ira. B. Baldwin, ‘ Hastings, Michigan. Strictly Pure Boson Rye cleaned‘u‘éu $2.50 per bu.. 6 bu. or' Write for sample. G WANTED, FIFTY CABS hard 3003 Woodward Dom V APPLETON oonn Boom—Good as new, a bargain. Chas. Eichb R. 1". New Haven, Michigan. .9 This .1: how the stencil the yellow address label , cover of your paper each To be sure,” getting: you week and on Saturday... it reads correctly and. address with rut ' ‘ the second line n: ricosw ,“Whe’at, $2. ’0‘ roe : Z026.“- lb; Hens, ‘22o-24c; ,;_24c'-25c;_ Butter, 4-5c_-50c; 50 1620; Sheep, 9c-10c, Lambs, ‘ jogs, 18c-19c, live, ‘22c-24c, 'uron‘ (Ween—Three frosts this in I; caught the Government corn. Sildfi-l'ling started in full. A great my started to harvest sugar beets. eans 'are'about all bunched. Some ave been hauled in the heme. Ear- usown wheat looks fine. Farmers are buying bonds. Prices quoted at 'Ejlkton are: Wheat, white.$2.07, red, .08; oats, 64; rye, $1.40; hay, 15-18; sans, $8.50; Barley, $1.85 cwt; Peas, :25; bu; Butterfat, 58c; Eggs, 42c; Hogs, $18.00; Beef, $8.00-$9.00.—G. W. .E'lkton, Oct., 4th., Livingston (N. E.)——The weather “’the past. week has been very good. Farmers are improving their oppor- . , tunlty and are getting in their beans. ‘ Late beans are frosted and farmers are letting them stand to cure. It has been an excellent time for filling silos and most of them will be filled by the last of next week. The en- silage this year is of excellent quality and farmers are going to have a feed , for their stock that will be hard to . beat—F. H.. Linden. Oct 4th. Calhoun (Northeast)——Farmers are about done with seeding. Weather is fine. Soil is in fine condition. Far? mers are not moving muc‘. now. (Prices offered at Battle Creek are: Wheat, $2.15; Oats, 700; Rye, $1.50; wPotatoes, $2.00; Onions, $1.50; But- ‘ter, 50c; Eggs. 500; Lambs, 14c; Hogs, ‘18c; Beef Steers, 7c; Beef cows, 6c; Veal calves, lie—O. E. B.. Battle Creek. Oct. 4. Tuscola (N. E.)~—Farmers are har- ' vestingbeans and corn. Those who have Si‘IOS are filling them. Late corn has been damaged by frost. Apples .are plentiful and a good sample but no market for them. Some are sell- invg"oa.ts and barley.- Many farmers are building silos this fall. to save late corn. Potatoes are a good crop but a'small acreage. The weather is fine 'for farm work. Prices at CaSS City are: Wheat, $2.08; Oats, 65c; Rye, $1.50; Barley, $2.00; Beans, $8.50; Potames, $1.25; Onions,$1:50; Hens, 230; Ducks, 200—220; Geese, 100; Tur- keys, 206—220; Butter, 45c; Butterfat, 58c; Eggs, 42c; Sheep. 7c—8c; Lambs, 11c-120; Hogs, 17c-18c; Beef steers, 9c; Beef cows, 6c-7c; Veal calves, 12c-14c; '—S.“S., Cass Citi, Oct, 4th. Tuscola (Central)—Every thing is fit to havest now. After the big frost of last Monday night farmers are pull- ing beans and cutting Buckwheat and some are fall plowing. A little rye to put in yet. Oats are going 40 to 60 bushels per acre; rye, 25 to 30 bu.; barley, 30 to 35. tWealhcr is better than last week but cool. soil getting quite hard again. Farmers are sell- . .ing apples and pears, still taking them I to outside cities, for there is no mar- ket here, farmers are holding rye for higher prices. Prices offered at Caro, October 4, Wheat, 2.10; Corn, 1.90; cats, 65; rye, 1.50; barley,1.85; ? " hay, No. 1 Timothy, 25.00; no. 1 light ‘ imixed, 24.00; buckwheat, 3.00; straw, 15.00; beans, 8.25; potatoes, 1.25; on- ; 'ions, 75 to 1.00;apples, 25 to.75c; pea- ches, 3.50 to 4.00; pears, 1.75. to 2.00; grapes, 75 to 1.00; hens, 22; roosters, '15; springers, 25-28; ducks 18-22; L‘geese, 18c; turkeys, 23; butter, 50c; butterfat, 59;eggs, 44c; sheep, 6 to 10; lambs, 121/2; hogs 15 to 17; beef steers, 1 5%; beef cows, 4 b0 5; veal 13 to 15. ;-—R. 3.0. Caro, October 4. ' Ingham—(NE) Quite a good many .:,“-,.farmers attended the Fowlerville fair this week. Silo filling is about done. "igg-ing potatoes, husking corn and eshing clover seed is the order, of 6 «day: Prices offered at Williams- ‘ on’Oot. 4,: wheat, 2.05; cats, 64'; 1.48; hay, 23.00; beans, 8.00 po- tat , s,"1.75; onions, 5c; apples, 75c; liens, 280; (butter, 500; butterfat, 60c; ’1‘ q”, 06t!';4. ' E. , " .-“'.750,-$1’.00.——'—E. H. M. Monroe, '5; 5119887‘ $17.25; applesy 750; ' i W. j:‘~ 1.50; (Oats, 68c; Rye,$1.50, . Fuentes” _ , . . ,‘ Clare (NorthleFaii-mers‘ are. ~ fillingC silos and threshing. Pleasant weather“ .Auctions are the order of the day. The following quotations made at Clare this week: Wheat, $2.07; oats, 64; rye,‘$1.46; hens,"22; ducks, 16; geese, 15; turkeys, 15; butter, 50; butterfat, 58; eggs, 41.-—D. 3., Lake, Oct. 4. ,. Genesee (S.E.)——Farmers are busy harvesting beans, cutting , corn, sowing rye and picking 1,, apples. We have had quite ,a‘ bit of rainy weather, making it very hard to harvest-beans. Several acres of beans are al- ready badly damaged. We had quite a hard frost on the night of September 30._ It did quite a bit of damage to pota- toes; ‘several fields were green :5 and still growing and will bad- / 1y damage others. Some were ‘3" 6"?“ - ‘ ripened up considerably and 6' OF; 30‘)“ c‘ were not damaged .very much. The soil "is in fine shape for fitting. Farmers are selling all kinds of grain and are also selling some livestock. There seems to be an in- crease in the acreage of wheat SOWed this fall, compared to last yér. Bean and potato yields will be poor this year. Grain threshing is nearly all done. Some beans have been thresh- ed, but it will be a few weeks before bean threshing begins in general. The majority of the beans are still stand- ing in the fields, they are very uneven in ripening this year, some vines be- ing over-ripe while others are still green. Most of the corn crop has al- ready been put in the silos in good shape. The following prices were paid at Flint this week: Wheat, white, $2.11; red, $2.13; corn, $1.70; oats, 67; rye, $1.50; hay, $20 to $25; beans. $8; red kidney beans, $9; potatoes, $1.50 to $2; onions, $1.25 to $1.40; cabbage, 1c 1b.; cucumbers, 30c doz.; hens, 25c; springers, 320 to 40c; ducks, 28 to 30c; geese, 19; turkeys, 24 to 25; creamery butter, 58; dairy butter, 53 to 55; eggs, 45; sheep, $9 to $10; lambs, $14 to $15; hogs, $18; beef steers, $10 to $12; beef cows, $8; veal calves, $11; wool, 67; apples, 50 to $1; pears, $3 to $3.75.——0. W. 8.. Eenton. Oct. 3. Monroe (West Central)——-We are havlng fine weather here. Wheat is looking good, some of the later is not up yet: Corn is about all cut, most of it was frosted. Potatoes are a very poor crop here, some not worth the time to dig them. _ Several new silos were put up this fall and the farmers filled them with the late corn, thus making a good feed for winter. Prices offered at Petersburg are: Wheat, red, $2.12, white, $2.10; Corn, $1.75; Oats, . 67c; Rye, $1.50; Hay, $15.00; Barley, CWt‘r. $2.00 cwt; Buckwheat, $3.00 Hens, 25c; Springers, 35c; Ducks, 25c; Geese, 22c; Turkeys, 200' Butter, 45c; Eggs, 43c; ogs; dressed, $20.00, live, $16.00;’Vea1 calves, $15.00.——W. H. L. . Dundee, Oct., 5th. -. Ionic, (N. E.) The fall work is up in very good shape» in this locality, the corn is all cut, beans gathered and all the rye and wheat sown, and «up making a good growth at present. We have had two weeks pf fine weath— er which helped in speeding up our work." There is quite a large cutting of June cloverseed which seems to be very well filled. The buckwheat crop is good and about all‘of it is cut. The late potatoes which madea good grow- ——makc ” every coupon count You want this weekly to succeed because it' means better profits, aril thusbcttcr livingfor every man or woman who farms in Michigan! This is a year of co-operationwwe must all help each other—— down the road in the nexthome to yours is a neighbor Who does not receive our weekly. Ask him tonight to sign this coupon and send it in. He can give you the dollar now or after harvest. ’ IF YOU ARE NOT A SUBSCRIBER—use this coupon NOW, you ’11 need our weekly more than everthe next few months. Send your dollar now or later. 1 MT. CLEMENS, MICH. ' KEEP M. B. r. COMING—£55 THIS—courou- : 7 MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, , - _ . . Send your Weekly for one year for which "I I > Enclose a dollar bill herewith or ( “ 1 will send $1 by Jan. 1,1919 ( <5 ) which . ") mark If renewal-mark an X heat 4 RENEWALS—If you aria mihscriber, look oh the from Serbia: yom‘yeliow address label, ' if it read: any date before October 18, clip it out, pin $11135an a dollar bill and'send, it "in-right say)”; 39 you W“? not mi“ my“??? , , Name 7 ., _—.——- P. o. ‘ .y 11.13.17.519.) - " County (I $tat5* run: in) . n v head vwgfi ‘ fl ;.Vmarket intrueks ’_ “ appleslwill go menu; . , p , . 'Not much produce coins to, hifl‘kfit ; '1 long tithe."~ ‘ .. ‘ rotate: vines. a 1” ready to viii-grit! Of potatoes. “Live, ' cars ’:~I~t;hink more they yet. ices at Clarkston are; eggs; : . 500; ‘ _, ,. 17c'-18c; LApples.’.5Oc.VE. F Tehed. ' Beet harvest in "fall‘swmgand Beans mostly taken: care of“ Wheat growingnicelyi’ Corn mostly-all out , and some h’nsking done. ,(Farmers too é W3Y,.;tm3ihn' ’ ' ' — _ "; "ch (s. EAL-Sim \d,111ng'"»a,uout no; '3 ' *the ”weather- id‘eai tor beet 'work..-".‘,7ifi" ' .ousy tag-have muchlplowing' done Weft, ; ‘ Help scarce and. farmers werking hard. , only light ‘frostNO .far.‘ Corn , mostly rippened, only .the very late kind. .The following prices were quoted ‘at‘ Bay City: Wheat, $2.10; Corii,fl$1.40; Oats, 68c; Rye,i$1.50; Hay, (timothy) $20.00, ('light‘mixed) $17-$18; Straw, $6.00; Beans, $8.50; Potatoes, $1.75; Onions, $2.75; Cab- bage, 2c-3c; Hens, 22c; Springers, 24c; Butter, 65c-700; Butterfat, -600; Eggs, 48c; Sheep, ‘14c—15c;~Lambs, 19c-200; Hogs, 23c-24c; Beef steers, lilo-20c; Beef coWs, 15c-16c; Veal calves, 22c; Apples $100-$125; Peaches, $3.75- $4.00; Plums '$3.00-$4:00;_ Pears, $2.50. ~ —J. 0. A. Manger, Oct., 4th. ., ~ «g: ‘ Ionic (West)——A whinging/visit. ed this section Sept. 30th. 4, armors are getting along nicely with their work. Silo filling about over. ("Sever- al hauling cloverseed which :‘sgood. - Native corn. is fair, average probably 60 0:70 bushels per' acre- The Jersey and Western corn which many farmers planted last spring is too late ’or_ 1. "maturity. At . the auction sales’_ all , “stock, except'horses, are selling high“ - Potatoes were killed by frost anuwill be a light crop—A. W. G. Sammie, Oét. 3rd. . ' Emmet (Northern)——Potato digging» is the order of the day and! nearly every body. is at work. VMany com- 5 plain that theflcrop is not sogood as expected. Many patches being damag» ed by blight and the potato. louse. Most crops are much better in this, ; , locality than they were glast‘ yeah. 3' ‘ ’ Prices offered at Harbor Springs arer‘ Oats, 700; Hay, (light mi ted) $-o; " Potatoés, $2.00 cw-t; Onions, $1.50; Butterfat, 67c; Eggs, 45c; £912.31), 20o; .. Beef steers. .05c; Apples, '$1.00-_ewt; .‘Peaches, $5.00.——0. L. G. Cross Voltage, c Oct., ~3’rd. : . Branch—Farmers are busy sowing ~ rye: filling silos, cutting. corn and dig- ; ging potatoes. Weather -fine. Soil getting dry and in‘ need of rain. _Far-, mers selling gengral run of produce, holding till the work is caugh. up to haul to market. Several good' sales this and next week. Following prices . are offered at 11111011 . City:- Wheat, $2.10; Oats, 60c; Rye. ,51.50§>Hay,1$16o . .$20;. Potatoes, $1.25; Onions, $2.00 ~,cw't; Hens, 23c; Swingers, 23c; But- ter, 5/50; ,Butterfat, 59c; Eggs,- 45c; ,Sheep,~—6c-9c; Lambs,"-150;.‘Hogs, 17’- 12c; [Beef steers, ’ tic-9c; — Beef cows, 3 tic-"7c; .Vea‘l calves, 15c-160.‘——¥Fg 8.: ‘UniQnOity, Oct. 5th. ' , St. Joseph (North 0entrcl)—~Wheat , , seeding about finished but a lot of rye. to be sown, yet. Potatoes rw‘ere ,Wdli'... hit by frost,.hut it was-'lptohab’ly a }goo’d thing: as ithey Will“ ripenup. , some; They, are going to‘ be green" I. ~ in 10 .days from now._-.'-‘:D01‘iit. KEV“. 'j r—“MAL‘kaflah Anal-.— m -Mh ‘6 Manatee-“merino: wmau‘Nm QB‘WHNHWH'B‘HfidflmOmmW ¢’1U_m:7' _. LA 2‘; “5“” (To: 9%CA,HOL<1UA Z "fil.¢6®<"’"—.‘C't1’“ TQ’jD‘WEODZ 'J- mas” :H'Ffitnmfifib‘tf: rat-'71: {Di-4“: . 1176” . ,‘potawes, $1.95; cumbers, . . hens, 20; 42:43; sheep, 616;. lambs, $15; hogs $18; 3594 steers, $7 to $9; veal calves, $9 to $11; apples 65; grapes, 30 per 11;, ——E. W., floral 90111. Sonllac . (Gentm’l) *Farmers busy b‘aling hay and threshing Oats cu- ' ' . springers '7 30; butter, 50-52; butterfat 62; eggs; are * and barley are turning out well, tram. 30 to 60 1511. to the acre. Some acres at wheat soWn. What wheat was sown early is up and doing Well. Quite a lot of rain the first of the month, which put the ground in good shape to work, but the last of the mom): has not seen much. rainendit has been manor good growth. 7 Fall teed " is rather shed, some tumors have to feed hay or corn fodder. their silos filled. There seems to be a good: crop of ensilage corn. The tol- lowinc prices were paid at Sandmky this; week; Wheat” 32.07;, oats. .64; hay, $21; butter, 45; butterfat‘, 60; eggs, M.—~—A. B., Sandmky, Sept. 30. Kent (Northeast)'——-—F~armers very busy yet finishing up their corn fields and some fields have been put into . silos. Corn is fair to good. Not all 1ye is sown yet, but wheat seeding was finished last week. Cloverseed being harvested. Beans pretty well taken care of, some even thrashed. Quality fine. Yield for best fields» 10 to 12 bu. Weather damp and frosty alternatelyq Soil dry. Potatoes are hardening up. and making very little growth past two weeks. They run small and _a large number in hill The yield will be just fair for the best of them, counting medium and small. Lots of potatoes have been trucked to Grand Rapids the past three weeks, where they have been sold for from $2 to $2. 25 per bu. —_--G. M .W. Green- ville, Sept. 24, Calhoun (North Cornwall—Silo fill- ing and soWing rye the order of. the past week. cut. Weather has been cloudy, very little rain; wheat needs rain. Follow- ing prices were paid at Olivet this week; Wheat, $2.08; oats, 65; rye, $1.50 beans, $8; potatoes-$1.75; hens, 25; springers, 26; butter, 50; butter- l'at, 60; eggs,‘42; hogs, $17.50; beef steers, 310—0; 3., Olivet,.Sept. 29. .Allegan (South)—-—Farmers 1.1 this section have finished sewing wheat and rye and most of them have their corn \cnt and silos filled. Weather fine with cool nights and occasional frosts. Standing corn badly frozen, but potatoes just touched a little, will make fair crop with a week or ten' days.’ more of good weather: The fol- lowing prices were paid at Allegan this week: Wheat, $2.10; rye, $1. 45; hay $30; beans, new, $6; potatoes, $2; eggs, 36; apples, $1. 25. —W. F. Otsego, September 30 10300 tEast)—-The weather has been fine for a few days and the farmers have been very busy getting out po« tattoos and beans, but there are 'a lot to take out yet. are about 60 per cent of a crop. Silo filling the order. 0. he day and all farmers are getting 11 silos as there is lots of 'ensilage corn. Nothing much going to market except a few Dotatoes and some apples. The fol- lowing prices were paid at Tawas City this week: Wheat, 62. 05-; oats, 6.5; We, $1.43; hay, $20; potatoes, $1.00; per bu..;‘buttertat, 62; eggs, 40; sheep. 14; tombs, 14; hogs, 12.; beet steers, 8; apples, 61—5. L., Tamas City, Oct 4. Presence Isle (6’sntml)——The weath- eJihaisemenfineioraweek but: driz- Z11! rain has set in. Everybody who had been he’s got them in; there Wm m of late ones that got {rested ' fits of plowing be- Some have ' Ccrn that is ripe is all' Beans and potatoes . potato ground after digging potatoes. Late potang are badly hurt by the rebentirost. Several farm auctions in this vicinity. Everything bringing a good price; oats 71c bu.;_ corn, 90c to $1 perished; in field; good farm hors- w,2$175 to» 5250‘; cows. from $90 to $100. Many farmers here raised sug- ar cane but it is very poor quality, lacking, in sap owing to the summer drouth, but farmers are not discourag- ed and are planning to plant larger acreage next year. Most farmers are getting winter supply or fuel. Apple growers harvesting their appies; N50. 1 grade bringing $2 per bu in the or- chard; most of No 2 grade going to canning tactory. Following quota- tions were made at St. Joseph this Week: Wheat, $210; cats, 70; rye, $1. 40; hay, $25 to $30; rye straw, $6; Whea-t- oat straw, $7; potatoes, $2; hens, 26c; swingers, 20c; butter, 42; batterfat, 60; eggs, 41; 5ressed beet, $12 to $16; veal calves, dressed. $22; apples, $2; peaches $3; pears, $1.00; )grapes, 35c 51/.) lbs .-0 0 Y Baroda, October 4. « Arenac (East-)WWell. Jack Frost has gone and done it again. and has fixed things up for the balance of this year. Oats yielding good; spring wheat good also but fall wheat and rye about half crop. Beans being harvested: but just a faii' yield is pre- dicted. Sugar beets a bumper crop. Seeding going on. Following prices quoted at Twining this week: cats. 64; beans, $8; butter. 50; butterfat. 62; eggs, 42; lambs, 12; hogs, 15 to 16%; apples, 50.~~M. B. R. Tlr'inim}. . October 4. Jackson (West)~—Farmers ing beans and sowing rye. Beans will go from nothingto five bu. per acre; many acres will not be harvested at all. Following prices quoted at Jack- son this week: Wheat, $2.05; mrn. $1.55; oats, 66; rye. $1.45; hay. $23 to $26; rye straw, $9 to $10; wheat straw, $8 to $9; beans. $8; potatoes, $3 cwt.; onions, $1.50 bu.; cabbage, $1.25 bu; cucumbers, 25c:doz.; hens, 22c; springers, 26; butter, 63; butter- fat, 60; eggs, 45; sheep, 10; lambs, 151/2; hogs, 17; beef steers 12; beet cows, 8; veal calves, 17; apples $1. 50 per bu.——B. T. Parmo Oct. 5. harvest Ingham (C'entml)—~Quite cold and not much rain; frost several nights this week; late potatoes beans and all late crops killed. Winds have shaken off apples not picked; farmers hustling fall work. Pastures coming good. Stock looking‘good. Threshing completed except some late beans and buckwheat. Not much change in the prices since last report—4‘. I. 54.. Mason, Oct. 5. ' Saginaw (West)——We have had two hard frosts that killed all late crops The farmers are hustling to cut their corn and fill silos. There are a. lot of beans to harvest. Late potatoes will tie a. fair crop. There has been a large acreage sown to wheat this fall. Lots of apples here. The following quota- tions at. this place this week: Wheat. $2.10; oats, 65; beans, $8; potatoes. $1.50; butter, 50; bu'tterfat. 60; eggs. 42; lambs, $15; hogs, $18; beef steers, $7 to $9; beet cows. $6 to $7; veal calves, $15.—G. L. St. Charles Oct .4. Monroe (17.5}. )—Farmers com and lifting beets. basking Fair weather; ,the soil is moist and most all wheat up higher now than last year when it froze up. Are not selling much. Ap- pies plentiful and many are making cider. The knowing prions were of- tered at Carleton this week: Wheat, $3.;12 oats, 67; rye, $1.50; potatoes, :2; hens, 22; ”ringers, 22”.; better, 5;o eggs, 48; has! $17 to $18; calves, $16; applets, $1. ——-R. H., Branch Oct. mg no. Weather has been the tier past tyre» weeks; getting dry, wheat needs 19111.82th grain and some Quite a tow tum adieu. Fol- _ Berrien (Ween—«Weatheh is fine.‘ Wheat about all in some rite sown. Some farmers will sow rye on their . (Wm (Meteorite—Farmers are finishing up cutting com and sow. W. was t. expe- mnce and guarantee behind it. it combincsall good qualities that possibly can be put in a stanchion. Porter Points See Then in the Picture A—Chains at Top and Bottom B~Locked by Cow-Proof" 1.11555: maximum Flexibility C— Stanchlon holder regularly furnished with each stanchion D—Perfect F it and Smootlmess make joints Sanitary. E—Round tubing prevents injury to animal. F—Extfa large bearing surface at hmge insures long life. Clevis and bolt bold hinge firmly in place. Porter‘ 9 Stanchion makes to “C f ” more valuable herd». r em ortable Cattle and that means FA Write quick liar hill information. 300 Guion Sir-eel Ottawa, Illinois Here is the ideal cow-stanchiOn, ‘, i made by Porter with the Porter 2 ‘ E" D Vinegar to comply with t Vinegar Law. load rate of freight from Michigan. Detroit, Mich. CIDER PLES‘ Car Lots Only We are in the market for several car-loads sound Fall or Winter Ap- ples for the manufacture of Cider 0‘ he State Quote per hundred pounds F. O. B. loading pOint—also advise Car- loading point to VViard’ 5 Siding, Ypsilanti, Wm. W. Vaughan Company vol—it 4—... Wand-rid dam-M for raw fun. Prices bW‘o- and. Fun"- num and- I am paying "I! hill! Prim My prices we not. I deduct no commission- Ind Also Ply express and panel pod charges. You will like my good will have In WM: catch all you cu. Bi. money in tun-u. Many;9 happen have me to embed." c e. Cabin-fad MW 11 uni you cunt dz! 1 receive your shipment You cunnoi Afford to I: with»! my price but. You want nut m I want your My. En|i:t' In my army of unified shippers Write mull-c ads minus a. dip It In. today without hiL BENJAMIN DORMA 4.11,“ng CONSIGN YO‘UR LIVE STOCK CLAY, ROBINSON TO &CO. LIVE STOCK COMMISSION Scum Omaha East St. Louis South St. Joseph South St. 'i’aul Fort Worth El Paso Chicago East Buffalo Denver Sioux City Kansas City I and ticks. mediated ult— saves WW with salt the year aroundike'e'p flock flochealthy and free from staunch A3500box1nkee$6000wufll ou “Mirialboxof'm- M "b post Will medicate a barrel at only '_ . ,. WW moneyf _. 1 c, o ry H o": e1 A PLGKIDA HO'l'll. .18 71-1: 1109.18 .5911 t- in {My island Reached in A few hour-by b at. tram 8r lnterurbsn from loveland, Detroi , Toledo or Sandusky. Motorists check cars at Catawba Point, take teamer Victory. 600 Rooms 81. 50: day and up. Special rates by the week. Cool lak breezes, bathing, dancing, music, tennis, boating, fishing, out door sports— ’ The Victory Hotel is one of the largest and best equipped summer hotels in the United States, situated on the highest point of one of Lake Erie’s most beautiful islands—Put-in‘ ’ Bay. ” Send for free map and folder also Ray McNamara s route book for automo- billets Plan to spend your summer vacation or welsh ends at this “Florida, Hotel in the North." The . Victory Hotel Put-In Bay Island h' They who want this. weekly! They have heard of what we are fighting for and What. we 11:. re accomplished this past year and they want to lend their s 1])1')Ol‘t. 0111' problem is to reach them with sample copies and some one who will offer to take their subscrlptions. \‘Ve do not. want to employ professional agents. ‘ We want real farm folks, who know their county, to do this work for our paper and we are willing to pay them what. we would have to pay a traveling canvasser. The worl; is pleasant because farmers like our weekly. OUR PAPER MOST; crops are mostly harvested, soon thev will be going to market, and no real business farmer in Michigan will market his crops Without consulting the market pages of Michigan Business Farming. We can use all of, your time and make. you a cash proposition which will not you good wages. - 01' if you prefer only to (lo a little spare time work in your own neighborhood, we will help you earn anything you want in the line of a premium; a watch, ring, phono— graph. kodak, dishes, silverware, 0r furniture—tell us what you want. we will get lowest wholesale prices and make you an easy otter to earn it, quickly. By all means, if you can help M. B. 1“,, use this coupon and see that it. gets into the next mail! ’ You'll find me ready and anxious to help you, sincerely, THE CIRCULATION MANAGER. Michigan Business Farming, Mt Clemens, Michigan. Dear Sir :—.I can devote my (whole) (spare) time, beginning are thousands of business farmers in Michigan 7 'RlGHT NOXV 1S THE TIME WHEN THEY NEED" about ............................... .., 1918, to canvassing: in ................... -. . . ., County,'Michigan, for subscriptions. . A : I want to work for (cash) (premiums). Send me your best offers. Sincerely, Ital-obcullohtolosl P o. I I.c0sseats-s!v0.0usoeuvustvuvs.lcorcuvo‘quI-eac-t'.n;p Remarks money, but. this: Was due to the meaty, eating: restrictions, none of which are in force new? and so; far as we know will net be put, into effect again With every prospect, therefore, 0 a. contin- uance of high prices, We firmly believe young cattle at their present cost to be an excellent investment. A cessas tion of the war does not mean a low-r or price by any means, because the troops will still have to be .‘od and this country will be called upon to supply the cattle deficiency which Eu- rope is, experiencing. It is a pretty safeassortmn that when We have 11111- restricted Sea. travel exports of meats ‘ and of livestock Will increase and in- stead of What we new term an «extra- ordinary demand decreasing it is like 1y to be of even more insistent nature —-01ay, Robinson & Co. UNCLE SAM AN EXTENSIVE “BOARDER;” BIG EATER Although it takes over 4,000,000 lbs. of food to supply the Ameiican army each day overseas, comprising 1,000,- 000 lbs. bread, 875,000 lbs.’freshp beef, 875,000: lbs. of‘.potatoes,_-_200,000 lbs. sugar and 125,000 lbs. of tomatoes as well as other additions to these stap- les, the statement has. been made by officers of the Army Quartermaster Department in France thatthere are. supplies on hand sufficient for j'ihree months. Nevertheless this huge re- serve Will be supplemented "regularly during the coming winter. In addi- tion to the task of getting these stores under cover of suitable warehousesot which we are told there are miles upon ‘ miles, their transport totho'troops in field and trenches is an undertaking involving an immense amount of work and careful‘ planning. Each man must be supplied with his ration no matter where he is and'supplylng 4,- 000, 000 lbs. of food to the interior of France daily so that each man is pro- vided for, tion. BARLEY MARKET LOOKING UP, SAYS TRADE PAPER The barley market has been exhib- iting more activity within the past few days and it is evident that gov- ernment buying for export is respon» This bfiying 1n allprobability. is to apply on the shipment officially ~ sible. . announced between 100 000 000 and 165 ,000;000 bushels of grain other tha- wheat which America has pledged her- Icorn: $1. 50; cats, 56;. ,$25; beans, $7. 50; potatoes, 70; lion's, , ‘ 25; butter, 50 butterfat, 53; eggs, 40. in addition to keeping the 7 emergency ration of each man re- -~ v‘ed, rather staggers the imagine; , replanting after 511116 13149111. f first planting. Husklhg 3 55111111161011? “' . of corn. ' Big Rapids this Week: [dry shelled corn, '81. 6,553 nowfioats The folloWlng rye, $145; has, $30 beans, , toes, $1. 40 own; 119113.20; butter abutterfat, 60; eggs, 40‘; hogs, 22;” live, $7 to $12 .8., Big Rapids tober 4 : ~ - ' M owtcalm (8. W. )wFarmers contln- no working at their fall work Which. ,iconslsts mostly of huskin‘g corn, ’nialiofity being rather poor“ : tatoos were heavily damaged by froétg“ ‘ last week-1n all parts of the caunty," the and on account of this many have be— " gun to dig. The grain which was sewn this fall is in fine conditio , "there Was a large acreage sown. Buck- wheat all cut and the late son is ' filled good although a small yield expected on account of the dry weath- er. Graln is moving slower than us- , hal, as the quotations are loWer. The: follbwing prices were paid at Green- ville this week: Wheat, $2. 08; mm, $1. 75; oats, 65; rye, $1. 48; butter, 53 to 55, eggs, 43, sheep, 10; lambs, 15; hogs, 17 to -;18 beef coWs, 6‘to 8;" veal calves, 9 to 11. ~—W. L. Gree'nville, Oc-_, tober. 5» ,_ Osceola (Northl—The Osceola Po- tato Ass" 11 was organized this Week with 80 or 85 charter members. Dig— ging potatoes the order of the day Potato buyers seem to be gettihg' un- easy over the stand the farmers are . taking in their own behalf. rat-imam about all done striving fall grain here. "The following quotatiOns at Marlon _ Wheat, $1.90 to 32.05;" this week: : rye, $1. 45; hay, ——W.. A. 8., Malian, Oct. 5. M Allegdn (8. E )—Corn is all cut and some farmers have commenced husk-. ing; potatoes are all killed by heavy frost. Quite a large acreage of Boson ' rye sown around here this fall; the-.1, ‘wheat aoreage is not diminished} The ‘ most of the Wheat is up 3111 looking: '._good Soil is quite dry. ing paid at the Allegan condensam’ fo‘i- , October milk The following prices , were paid at Allegan this week: Oats. 65; wheat, $2.10; rye, $1.40; hay, $30 'to $32; beans, $6; potatoes, “$1.50 to $1.75; onions, $1 to $1125; cabbage, 1 21/-_»c; hens, 20 to 22; springers, 20 to 22; butter, 52; butterfat, 55; eggs, 40; sheep, 10; lambs, 13 to 15, hogs, 16 to 19; beef steers, 6 to 10; beef com, 5 to 6; veal calves, 13 to 15; apples, $1 75 per cwt; pears, $1. 25 to $2. 00.—~«W. ,Otscgo, Opt 5. , The w.” , 'IN- FR THE most interesting thing in the wOrld today "for eyerv man, woman or child with a drop of American blood. is , the battle lines where our boys are pushing the Hun back to Germany! . ~- \ m The greatest game that man ever witnessed is drawing near the finish lu‘ the American flag again Victorious in a righteous cause— . ———th1nk what it means for you and I to be alive in these history- making days? . Yesterday a representative of one of New York 's largest map publish- ers came into my office almost out of breath—“Mr. Slocum.” he. said. “I know you do not give away maps as premiums with your paper. and 1’ know you have never liked any of the big. cumbersome, hard-to-read War-maps, but look at these proofs they have sent me special delivery from New York!" And I watched him. with only passing interest. unfold a large book, but in’ .five mlnutes I had to admit that it was just the kind of a map we have all been looking for, and he could not get out of my office for an hour. while we traced town by town the advance which the victorious allies and our own American boys were making on the great western front. Then and there. I decided that it‘ there "as any way that we could get these maps out to the friends of our paper. I wanted to find that way and I have—so if you want one. read this page and then use your cou- pon below quickly so that I can get one into your hands right away. Nothing you own will give you more pleasure and satisfac- tion during the next few weeks or months than this wonderful set of maps. Sincerely. your publisher, \h ., .ELGIUM . \ ‘ ‘0 \,I ~- ', LUXEMBURG: Red ' an. . - r . . _ . 1 M . . ‘ ,5”) c" 1"?- ~ .' MO TMEDY 2—” Line WACH‘WO ' - . . ' ' Battle . 1 ~ I Front \ VERDUN . l'o" \ - . ‘ - In ‘ " .cONFLAN France TfMENEHOUL o" 1‘“ ' . to-dayl ‘ \ ' (Oct. 8th. i 1918) ‘ ' ‘ . __ __ “MW... .51. mm: , .. {Masses 1‘ This shows just a. two mile section from/the four Five-Mile Scale Maps every one printed in type as large as shown above! In add- ‘ itiqn there are sixteen maps including map of Western, Front, Complete World Map, Russia in Europe, Siberia, Asia and Japan, Complete European'qu, "Map Of Italian Front, Map of Submarine Barred Zones, Asia, Palestine, etc.,——the most complete, compact ‘n _ and practical set of war maps ever published. E MAPS are printed in colors on sixteenlpages of enameled paper, size 28 x 39 inches, securely bound together and folded so you can lay them .011 the ordinary reading table. You do not have to cover up half the wall of a room or stand on your head to read the type With amagnifying glass—the towns, forts, rivers etc., are printed in type as large as shown in the small section of one of these maps of the battle line today ,reproduced above. ‘ , . _This applies to the maps of the western front. The, maps of all other war-areas are reproduced in colors, plenty large enough to meet ailjof your needs and form‘a ready reference 'to the daily progress of our boys Wherever they may be called. These maps cannot be purchased through the stores today and it may be months before the publishers can catch up with the orders ' .frOm every part-of the country. i _ _ , . We will notkgive more than one set of . maps to one paid-up subscriber to M. B. F., but the new subscriber you add, may in turn secure i a copy of the maps by securing one more new name” for our list as you are asked t0 d0- ; i' , Howto GetYour Copy of These Maps! — -=- ». 5; Send 315 $3., for which we will ‘fiénew your own subscription to Michigan Business Farming, Mt. (‘lenn-ns. Michigan. - - Dear Sirsz~I enclose $23 (check or money orderl to renew my own subscription for one year and to add the name of ‘ _ MlchlganBusinessnFarnfing for one year from. date of expiration l p i ‘ now shown “a . ‘onr'label andiask some friend or nei hbori'n . farm- ‘ 7 _ i, » ,. - ,Y ' - ‘ ' ' ' g g P. 0. ............................. R.l,*_‘.D. No.. . .. Michigan for one year. You are to send me the 16 Page 5-Mile War. Map! ' i l as described, free by return mail to ~ , i l P. o. .. .................... ...... Min. No..... Midi ._ If you have already» renewed’give name of the otherfn l subscriber below. - M ......... . ......... . ......... PJ-O‘ > i ‘ i L r . .».--...-~.,.v_p. lellmawg 12 h. e 1116 for Jens than thecostaf ' bull-d signing best engine' 111 the world—— , will” outlast the car—and you might as well save £01111 moneyand use it to «inventor-muck.- 9 weer on tires or transmission. Hooks up in a ‘ No permanent attachment to car. Cannot . Injuroea or or engine. ' Friction Clutch Policy on end of shaft. Ward Gover- mm mom Min. 1.... cum _ll not oslloflel. Ask for circular and special price. I!” 1mm 00.. 2066K 8L. linooln. I011. ' _. ' z... D ‘ ’t W T on car a russ BROOKS APPLIANCE e modern scientific tion the wonder- , new discovery “ that relieves rupture will be sent on trial No obnoxious springs or pads. Has auto- matic Air Cushions. Binds and draws the broken parts togeth- er as you would a broken limb. No calves. Durable cheap. Sent an n- ial to prove it. Protected by U S. patents. Catalog and measure blanks mailed free. Semi name and al No lies. HOGGING DOWN CORN , PRACTICE NOW COMMON ' Marketing the corn crop, by hogg- ing it down appeals to the_ average farmer as gating especially advant. age'ous, now that he must continue farm operations without sufficient help. And it is. Afterythe silos are I filled and enough corn to feed the cat- ! tle, sheep, and work animals has been g set aside, the hogs may harvest the E rest. They will eat practically every- j thing but the stalks and 111111 market . the crop with very little waste'and Q at a minimum labor cost. ‘ The hogs should have access to only a small part of the field at a time, the part having been fenced off with ' " a. temporary fence. When it is clean- ed up the fence is moved to take in another small part of the field. In 2 this way the hogs clean up everything as they go. A very good temporary fence may be made by weaving ordi- nary hog wire in between the stalks along a row of corn, with posts driven at the corners and the wire lied every rod or so to the corn stalks. 'rees today Mich. C. E. BROOKS, 463- B State St., Marshall, 1: intp‘lirialnnci " I. Pa rscns WC)...“ i l ( WANTED any quantity, any Rik Honey I SPOT CASH SYME EAGLED and CCOMPANY A» young shoats in the field for the first ; should be fed when corn is bogged . down ,1 by cowpeasplanted with the corn or Before turning the hogs into the i corn field they should be fed green 1 corn in gradually increasing amounts. 3 It is sometimes necessary in turning available at all tibia: , For (i gains, in the absence of running water. formation on this subject HOGS DO NOT LIKE THE With the regulations being supplanted by feeding from it such products as grease, alco- hol, glycerine and fertilizer. posal methods hastened by war-time economies is the tendency to with JOHN H. ’WINN, Breeders of REGISTERED HOLS’I‘EIN CATTLE. Roscommon, Mich., Sept. 18, 1918 inc; I l time to break down a few stalks for ,5 ’ them until they learn to do it for themselves 01 to turn a few heavier . hogs in with them for awhile to teach I 5 them how. Some farmers follow the , j shoals with the sows and pigs. This l i reduces waste to the lowest possible I 1‘ degree. A protein supplement of some kind This may be partly supplied by having an adjoining lied of alfalfa, clover, 01' rape for the hogs to run on. Shorts and tankagc or linseed oil- meal in a selfrfeeder where they can have access to it at all times is pro- bably the best way of supplying the protein fieed to the hogs. Be sure there is plenty of good fresh water 33‘ W. Madison t. Dept.C Chicago, Illinois , l YOU CAN SEI 1 YOUR F ARI“ Di— met to the buyer without paying com- mission through my 00- operative plan. and be free to sell to anyone, through i anyone, anywhere any time) for any price or terms. Write for circular. ‘ JAMES SLOCUM, Holly, Michigan. 1 one next spring I gi1c you cxclushe fights 1":1(9.W1ite me tod:.1y E. t). Pcrry. 37 Henry St, Detroit, Mich. FORD PAYS $5 I’l‘ It l)A1’.~~Yon can make 1401(1 wages building l’crry Brood- ers for your ncig‘hbozs 'I‘l1eyll all want THE LITTLE WONDER TILE DITCHER, Will Save 80% of Your Work ”Will ship to any responsible p'arty sub: Ject to approval, without a cent in ad— vance, absolute satisfaction guaran- tecd. \Vrite-for terms and circular. EDW. JESCHKE 414 Lynne 51., Benevu'e, - Ohio. H OWELL SALES COMPANY at Sales Pavilion, Mostly fresh cows or cows soon to can es ;-also three good bulls. WE WILL A 27. 64 lb. J12. four yea1 old ’ A 26. 78 lb three year old and her Six others with good recoa ds ’ 8' A son of a 45.18 lb. cow & sired bya . th. A son of King of Pontiacs and a 31 A son of a 29 lb. granddaughter of MACK and PERRY, Auctioneers 5th ANNUAL SALE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1918 90 HEAD REGISTERED HOLSTEINS ' two year old daughter sired by Beauty 1 - Walker Pietertje Prince 2nd. Two 24 lb . 4 REFERENCE SIRES A son of King of the Black and Whites and a 28 lb. cow. .A. son of King Seg’is Champion Mobel and a. son of a 32 lb. cow Allr cattle are consigned by Livingston County breeders and are tuber- calm tested by federal watermarks or state ”proved voternams. JAY B TOOLEY, Secretary, Howell, Michigan of LIVINGSTON COUN’I‘Y Howell, Mich. freshen and a few good heifers and SELL . COWS 32 lb. son of Rag Apple Korndyke 1b. cow Pontiac Korndyke. Send fol- Catalogue \ 3 «any. gflxgrfls 11.111 our weekly will you mention the that 3% ”Mini”? '1)!” m 8.1 m chu- ' flit 54.1 lbs Michigan Business Farming, Mt. Clemens, Mich. Enclosed please find check for $100 for which send your pape1 and we will look it over for a while and decide as to what we will do as to taking some space. Of course if we start with you we will want to run our ad. yearly, and as ouri herd increases we will use more space. We have had you in mind, but were not ready. We like the» l punch you put in your paper and will help you grow all we can. » John H. Winn (Incl 4 By John H. Winn, Gen. Mgr. water is an impel-taut factor ' "A good barrel waterer does Very well The University of Missouri College of Agriculture Extension Service Cir- cular 37 is free and gives detailed in- CRUDE “MARMALADE” increased understanding of garbage utilization and the means of getting more out of the garbage pail although less is put in, many cities have lately modified pre- war Disposal of garbage by dumping, burning or other means is it to hogs or by processes which recover Among the changes in garbage dis- dra’w local regaining requiring city garbage to be cooked before being fed to swine. Cooking ordinary garbage causes the acids in fruit peblings. ri-nds and similar kitchen waste to form .a crude “marmalade.” .Altho hogs may at first eat the mixture eagerly, .ap- parently attracted by the new taste, the appetite for this unnatural feed frequently fails in a shért time. Un- .i.hriftiness and intestinal disorder may follow. The, injurious effects are aggravated by the frequent presence of soap which spread 1' throughout the cooked mixture. 011 the other hand fresh raw gar- bage enables hogs to select the noun ishing and palatable portions and leave the remainder. Sterilization by cooking does not appear to be object- tionabie when the quality of garbage can be controlled, but in ordinary methods of collection, its classification is difficult Most of the garbage now being fed in the United States is un cooked and there is no evidence‘that garbage fed hogs are more likelv to be diseased than hogs fed grain ,or other feeds. AUGUST REPORT OF COW ' TESTING ASSOCIATION Report for month of August. 1918.' Oceans. Cooperative Cow Testing As- sociation of Michigan. Sent Sept. 23, 1918, by Clement 'McLouth, Hart, Michigan. Number of cows tested during month, 241; number of cows producing over 40 lbs fat, 10; name and addrésés of owner of cow producing . .most fat,Hendricksm1 Bros, Shelby, name of cow, Dollie May of " Mich; Eimhurst; breed, Reg. Jersey; age, .9~ years; number of maths since fresh, 9. Month’s record. . Milk, 949 lbs , Owner of 11cm haying highest tater “ e m tion,‘ milk, 5230, cl ’R ‘ ,fenes With plump oats“ lean form a is. j the ration. _ production Hen- j drickson Bros gh.Shelby, Mich. ‘ of cows in herd, 8 able cows, increasing production, m ‘been accomplished? All the bulls 110121, is; of purely-red bulls, better feeding,» and it is likely to be neglected when cooperative buying of food. etc, have the begs are running in the cornfield. owned by persons in the mention are purebred. The farmers in Clays banks township are doing the best work in the Cooperative buying of feed. Cottonseed, cornnakes. etc, are ordered throngs W Era, in car-load lots. BARLEY, A CHEAP AND . VALUABLE STOCK FOOD With the closing,“ breweries inathe United States after December L any» temporary Macedon in the Macy‘- market should came producers little concern. Barley is. an excellent live: stock and poultry feed, and also it will be used to a larger extent than heretofore in making flour. New . methods of milling‘this grain yield an excellent flour for which there is active demand. The country will easily absorb the entice barley crop, according to Food Administration calculations, and the. barley formerly used for brewing will it cunts of milk, meats, flour, poultry products and other important foods. When barley is to be fed livestock, the grain should be crushed. Owing to the hard exterior of barley kernels, farm animals do not otherwrise secure the greatest nourishment from The single exception is in feeding har- ley to poultry. When provided, with ample grit, ,fvowls derive full nourish- ment frm the whole grain. This year’s crop should assist materially in relieving the feed situation and the high level of prices for animal products" makes the feeding of barley in excess of market demands both profitable and patriotic- PERCHE‘RON SOCIETY To. . HOLD ANNUAL MEETING. The next annual meeting of the stockholders of the Percheron Society of America will be held in the Flor- entine Room Congress Hotel Chicago, 111., at 8 p. 111. Monday, Dec 2,1918. V ' The future of draft horse interests is especially bright. Shortage of men is compelling greater utilization of horse power. Six and eight horse teams 'will’ be as common within the next two years as four horse teams have been in the past. The use of more heavy horses will increase the dailytwork done by each man on our ,1 farms by 50 to,“ 100 per cent Eight and ten hmse teams have been com- mon for years on the Pacific Coast. Fifty acres plowing per week is the average per man. As horsemen and farmers. we must learn to/ use these larger units of horse power effectively, thereby iii-creasing the demand for good Percheron horses. YOU SHOULD FATTEN " FOWLS IN‘PENS Fattening poultry should be confined in a small pen or crate. Exercise pro-' duces hard muscles. which means tough meat while non exercise leads to a softness of the muscles which are ' tender when cooked Soft feed should be fed as a lack of exercise inter-7 the proper digestion of whole grain. The feed should be fine- ly ground and mixed with water, milk or buttermilk. The following propor- .-tions have been found very satisfac— tory: . Half finely groud corn one- fourth shortsand one fourth grounds. ' oats. Use the foods that are reason able in price, Corn is rich in fat Scraping elements but barley and good - ars F.1‘ayier of New “ is hoped, result in increased am- . it. ’ Uh; 1.131221: '1'“ the icy - fie as lie G: gunman] PI |' my; . I 7:: =1! hit-restore ~ , .. LS'HIINCATTLE Solid , for . our boOklets—r—they‘s contain much Valuable information. - "HQLSI'ElN-FRIESIAR ASSOCIATION or mum g "me ., ‘ . _. . - .c, .0“ / no. rota ‘ 11' Fort. Btgwyest, Dotro . . r w on BALE—Registered Holstein Show Bull, service age; Pontiac Korndyke breeding.,'.Price right. John A. Rinke, Warren, . Michigan. . ‘ egistered Holstein Bull one year old for sale, Goad t um giving yrs. now from 06 to 05 lbs. of 3.7 milk TWO Young Bulls fer Sale, Ready for Service gzne from, a 25 Ill). co; antioone grom 3. lb. four year 0 d.» rite ' pe igrees and. prices. m... smssu‘av . ‘ t/ . ' audacitmhicn l . , ’ MUSOLFF BROS. HOISTEINS We are now’booking . orders for young bulls from King Pieter Segis Lyons 170506. All from A. R. O. dams with credible records. We test annu- l allyfor tuberculosis. Write for pric- es and further information. Mnsom 31-95., South Lyon... Michigan. l o . 0 . Holstein Heifers- ~ The cows and bulls advertised have been sold. I have C» or 8’ registered Holstein heifers from heavy produc- ing dams, 3 mos. to 2 years old at $125 apiece. ROBIN CARR F0 WLERVILLE, MICHIGAN . daily. Price $30 crtated. Also young ' calves cheap. C. L Bullett & Son. * « s, Mich. One Car-load Registered Holstein: Yearlings sired by 30 pound bull and from heavy-producing cows. Also some choice Duroc open gilts. J. Hubert Brown. Byron. Michigan. ~ Dollars in profit Jerseys. The money." They f value. J with actu y " milk less. 'l‘heylook real one" are n gilt-edge investment and proofc of Superiority. Write to Breeders for prices and pedigrees. t us send you “Jersey acts". free. The American Jersey Callie Club.367 West 23rd Si. New York (In, SEORTHORN WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41 SHORTHOBN breeders. Can put you in touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls months old, grandson of Hengerveld De K01, sired by Johan Hengetveld Lad Who has 61 A. iR.,,0. daughters. Dam is an 18 lb. 3 yr. old granddanghter of King Segis who has a sister that re- cently made 33 lbs. butter in 7 days as a 4 yr. old. This calf is light in color. Well grown and a splendid individual Price 8100. Write for photo and pedigree. L. C. Retailer. Flint, Michigan. REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL 6 WOlverine Stock Farm Offers two sonsabout 1 yr. old, sired by Judge Walke Pietertje. These calves are nicely arked and light in “color and are fine individuals. Write all ages. Some females. C. W. Crum, Secretary Central Michigan Shorthorn Association, McBrides. Michigan. OB SALE, pure bred Shorthorns and 0. . C. gigs. Five young bulls, 7 to 9 mont s. 8125 to $150 each. Ray Warner. R. No. 3, Almont Michigan. HORTHOR‘NS and 'POLAND' CHINAS. Bulls, heifers. and spring pigs, either ' sex, for sale, at farmers’ prices. F. M. Piggott & Son. Fowler, Michigan. . SHORTHORNS 1m. Wears e Farm since 1867 and are Bates Bred. Two red heifers for sale. J. E. Tanswell, Mason, Mich. . cows bred to a 27-lb. bull for 1917. Dodge Roadster .or Ford touring, must be in A] condition. Address Box HS, ’ Care Michigan Business Farming. ’ sired by a son of u" a v Friend Hengerveld . g2. ’ De. Kol -- Butter Boy and by a sow ofKing Segis‘ De Koi Korndyke. from A. R. O. dams with rec- ords of 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28.25 at full age. . Prices reasonable breeding considered. . ‘WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM W. W. Wyckofl.’ Napoleon, Mich. , EOLSTEIN ..BULL CALVES _ Sires dams average 37.75 mg but- ter .7 das. 145.93 lbs..30 das. testing ' 5.52% tat. ‘ Dams gooc A- R, backing. Calves nice straight fellows % white. Price $65.00 each while they last. Herd tuberculin tested annually, Baum-n rel-ms. Jackson., Michigan. Holstein-Frieda Cattle-N, Under the present labor conditions I feel the necessity of reducing my, herd. Would sell a few bred females»- ‘ or a few to. freshen this spring. These .cows are.-all with calf to a 30-pound bull. .1. Fred Smith, Byron, Michigan ' SUNNY PLAINS -H0[STEINS “A few young bulls left. Also a young pair heavy firs. Phone 58F15. ft horses. 4.3mm IdLLINGER, ' Fowlervillg, ‘Mieh‘igan. FQRSAI Elleven head at Roldan: . , . ws ' and lighten. . ' yefirlings m bred, the rest h , fro-hen the fall and winter. A good m reas- onable flan-"some one. Write. ' W. C. Honda‘s 8: Son. Pinchey. mn- bi Cameroons apnoea-‘1 ‘_ , p‘to‘_‘~ql§:‘lfms or one men an cheerfully be m l 'l | l l 13'in For Sale figure REGISTERED GU lines, also young bull Golden Noble II breeding. cow, popular blood (1 for ides than 13 insertions under an“ . he. Title displayed lie-Mat advantage. In: larger ad- or for ads to run idioms or more we will! Send in copy ndv' ' misc. 3 0" Mention to the Advertising Dept..- _ ‘ "Large Typefolanci China We ARGE TYPE P. c. M ails. ., , and ready to ship.» ,m weigh}! '- to 365 pounds. Will farm' ht, Aug. Wm 31303.11 8. few m Fall sale Nov. 29. ' g» Wm. J. Clarke, R. No. 7, Mason. Mlcl‘l- Loren~A. Dygert, Alto, Michigan. W l . I .IEEBEFORD “5mm!“ . 2. _ , REGIME» min-sums race. now .‘ - . Wregrdy. Agargin‘mszoaf pig. hillr,‘ .. 8 bull calves Prince , 1 - Miler. . . _ , Herefo m m Donald and Farmer Breeding. ALLEN BROS., Paw Paw, Mich. SHEEP . I ‘ 'snnorsnmns . , OR SALE—Hereford registered bull. 3 REGISTERED gnu“)-.. g Fyrs. old. Samuel 1», Hortzter, Glennie. SHROPSHIRES an” Rams, i Some . Michigan, , :wes. Write for prices or come to the arm. HORSES Dan Booher, R. 4, Evarfl Mich; FOB. AUGUST DELIVER! 50 Register: SHETLAND PONIES SHETLAND PONIES prices. Mark B. Curdy, Howell. Mich. For Sale. Write C~ Lemen. Dexter. for description & ed.v Shropshire Yearling ewes and 30‘ Registered Yearling Rams of extra qual‘ - 11y and breeding. Flock established 1890. Michigan. snnopsnmn RAMS .7 REGISTERE of quality. One . im- HOGS BretGilts Serviceable Boarsx J. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich. l O l C LARGE TYPE 0. l. C. Spring pigs pairs and trios. Gilts bred I, for fall farrow, at prices that will please. (‘LOVER LEAF STOCK FARM Monroe, Mich. DUROC Registered Duroc Jersey Swine. For sale Yearling and spring boars of quality, also bred sow, Aug. and Sept.‘far— row. Spring gilts- Write for pedigree and prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. L J. Underhill. Salem. Mich. DUROC BOARS 3““ long, tail, grow- sale, also a number of well bred young bulls—write for breeding. Village Farms. Grass Lake, Michigan. . L‘ BBED snon'rnonNs. A thy males that will for prices and pedigrees. Pattie Creek. Bates few cows for sale. ' J. B. add size and growth to your herd. Big- iCh" R' 2‘ Hummel. Mason, Michigan. gest March farrowed pigs in the coun- ‘ ‘ , try. zoo lbs. and not fat. . - " connivsm ' Newton Barnhart. St. Johns, Michigan. EXCHANGE ' GUERNSEYS WE HAVE A. m For savour DUROC JERSEY Digs ‘ either sex; long, big bone; pm- Two -well bred Registered Holstein Heifers and cows for liflc kind; ready for shipment about Oct. 15th. $10.00 each. Hillsdale, E. Kies, Michigan. m... __-—___ . menths. Bldg; ' ,‘For Sale .- at a Bargain Five Registered "GUERNSEY '_BULLS" , One aged three years; one twenty ‘mQflfhxi'two seven months; one five All May Rose, and Lang- Wtfir strain. Phone Main 2655. 7 , f" G. W. Dickinson ported three-year-old Ram. Priced rightJ Harry Potter & Son, Davison, Michigan. DELAINE MI’ROVED Black Top Delains. Reg. Rams to choose from. Newton & Blank, HZill Crest Farm, Perrinton. Mich. Farm situated four miles south‘ of . Middleton. ' Sixty O A. M. and DELAINE MERINOS, large size. long, staple, well covered, heavy“ shearers, Rams that please. Write s. H. Sanders, Ashtabula, Ohio. ‘ OR. SALE—Registered yearling Rams. ' Improved Black Top Delaine Merino. Frank Rohrabacher, Laingsburg, Mich. REGISTERED IMP 0 '. FOR SALE Black Top Delaine RMe‘i-ligilg Rams. V. A. . . Backus & Son, Potterville.f I Michigan. Citizens' Phone. , :. ‘ FOR SALE PURE BRED and regis- tered American Delaine " sheep. Young. Both sexes. F .H. Conley, Maple Rapids, Michigan' PURE BREI) Black To Delain one Ram. WiIIBliam1 Iél. Melee, Byron? 0x 1 . , . Michigan, P. O. 30 RAhIBOUILLET PURE-BRED Rambonillet Ewes.. Priced for quick sale. Eugene W. Melrer, Byron, Mich, P. O. Box 123 ‘TIX—TON MIX' with “It the ear amend flock bait!» and hue Iron; worn- and I. m his money - ’1.” sample box by parcel polt I!!! no cute n burcl'of nit. Write for club ofl’u' —book on ‘Nature and Car. of Shoe . " let ‘ masons TlX-TON co.. Grand in... iiieil M“. “a POULTRY WYANDO’PTE ”7 liver Laced, Golden and White” 4 g tdottes of uality. Breeding “mfg; c . ' ISL. gage it earl. Chm Browning, R. 2, Portland, Dflch. 7 LEGHORN PROFITABLE DUFF “maximise—W have twenty pens of especially mate Single Comb Buffs that are not only mat~ ed for exhibition but, above all, for prof- _ itable eggproduction. Eggs at very reas~ onable price. Our list will interest you -——-please ask for it. Village Farina. Grass Lake, Michigan. CHICKS We Ship thouSanda‘, each season, different . Detroit, Michigan I ' Barred Rodi Eggs Fm“ i mailed mo. .H. A. . and squ'a‘re. varieties booklet testimonials. stamp appreciated. F ., Hatchery. Box 10, Freeport. Michigami TURKEY'S [ANT BRONZE TURKEY'S. Big boned Gyoung thoroug’hbreds. Booking orders now at early fall prices. Buy early and save money. " N- Evalyn Ramsdell, Ionia, Michigan, HATCHING EGGS PLYMOUTH ROCK and: g. my. records to 2% egg: per year- 32.00 per 15 Prepaid bur , , Astilng.. cel post. Circular free. Fred Constantine. Michigan. FERRETS 2000 smears. Their hustle rats moons Pri nil»? wheé’l‘éma? ONLY RELIABLE BREED” ERS ARE rennin ‘ Write them as you wouldto we know everyone to be not; No amount would talent as to insert the ad of a map we did not MICHIGAN Bil muss: ‘ vil' '. 0,-1‘ The following Buick Cars have been Stolen and ' " A": I for this Fall: A. L. Arnold, Owosso Buick Roadster Factory No. 243528 G. L. Hahn, Pontiac “ . ' 1‘1300136 . Paul Marienthal, Saginaw “ , . . _ F I‘ 299974. N. B. Wheeler, Kalamazoo ‘f. - » .1 ‘ i . ’ "247522 J. L. Cohn, Romeo “ i ‘ . . ~ 297474 , S. R. Anderson, Muskegon “ q _ , A ~. ‘ 156446 1' Fire, 102 Amount Paid $25,423,191 ' . . . Claims paid in 1918 Theft, 132 , Amount-Paid $19,297,41 Total $69,620,187 Liability, 217 'Amount Paidi$24,899,58 \ Fire Losses occur many times in the public garage, and as cars grow old there “ is greater danger of a back fire or a short circuit. A few days ago one of our members driving his car away from home left it standing; another driver accidently bumped into the gas tank, setting the car on fire A ' and burning it. ~ ~ - ' l ' , - I i No man can afford to go Without msurance at thls tlme. a The government expects everyone to keep well protected. They encourage insurance of all kinds? especially for those who are poor pr in moder- 1 I . .1 . - A ate circumstances. A small amount paid " ' ~~ . ' ‘ ' ,7 makes you safe. When the committee for 35 000 1 $700“, ‘ Liberty Bonds comes, it isa poor excuse to say Surplus that‘your automobile burned or was stolen or Members $9 “\YTUAL A”, E. that you have a big lawsuit to defend, and can . fiEFT— L’AB Bill ”J nOt buy. You 'can keep yourself Safe byrcarry— . ' ing automobile insurance, as the cost —1s only ' 1 about 2c per day. . .. Keep Insured In The BIG MUTUAL 17",Abl‘e To Stand The Shock of Serious Losses. W. E. Robb, Secretary. , CITIZENS MUTUAL _ «AUTO INSURANCE CO; ‘ " , Howell, Michigan '